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PRINCETON, SIXTY-THREE 



FORTIETH-YEAR BOOK 

OF THE MEMBERS OF THE 

CLASS OF 1863 

COLLEGIO NEO CAESARIENSIS 

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PRINCETON UNIVERSITY 




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CLASS OFFICERS 



Class President 

Samuel S. Stryker, M. D. 

3833 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, Pa. 

Class Secretary 

Prof. John W. Patton 

Cor. Thirty-fourth and Chestnut Streets, Philadelphia, Pa. 



FOREWORD 

""T HIS BOOK originated at the reunion of 1903. A Circular 
had been issued from Philadelphia, March 19th, preced- 
ing, by Dr. S. S. Stryker, Class President, and Professor J. W. 
Patton acting as Secretary, inviting the Members to the Class to 
the Fortieth-year Dinner at the Princeton Inn on the Monday 
of Commencement week, June 8th., and likewise to lunch at 
University Hall on the Saturday previous, and to take part in 
the Procession to the Ball Game, which is the feature of that 
day. There was a good response to this, some twenty-one of 
our number in all being on the Campus during Commencement 
time. Some account of these occasions and the names of those 
who were present, will be found under the sketch of Holmes. 
In the course of the Banquet Professor Patton was requested to 
continue to act as Class Secretary, in the room of the lamented 
Samuel B. Huey who died in 1901. The proposal was then made 
by Gen. Reeder that we have a Class Book, which was seconded 
by Prof. Patton, who proposed my name as Class Historian. 
With warm assurances of co-operation from all sides the pro- 
ject was started. 

The honor was quite unlooked for, but too gratifying to be 
refused, and I undertook the work gladly. I had not a shred 
of preparation, however, and had even quite forgotten a little 
collection of Class and College ana saved up in post collegiate 
days, but laid by and buried in the dust of many many years. A 
thick packet of sad and defaced envelopes, stamped by the postal 
authorities " Unclaimed, Return to Sender," turned over to me 
by Prof. Patton as the fruits of his endeavors to reach our Class- 
mates, suggested melancholy thoughts and did not encourage 
hopes of a fruitful correspondence. In fact, though not dead 
myself, I had a vague impression that I should find but few to 
contribute materials for a Book, — which accounts for some 
blundering in the Circulars of Announcement and Inquiry which 
I hastened to send out. Many prompt responses soon came in, 
but many names required the persistent effort of months to 
accomplish the results here given, and a few have defied all my 



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research. However, everybody helped, and I have reached the 
end of my very pleasant task. Whatever may be thought of the 
Book, I am proud and indeed surprised at the success met with 
in tracing so nearly all of our Classmates by correspondence 
with themselves or their friends. I can but wish you all, Sur- 
vivors of Sixty-three, as much pleasure in the reading, as I have 
had in gathering these widely-scattered and fragrant leaves. 

As nearly as possible one half the number of names in the 
Book are those of Classmates who have passed away; necessarily 
demanding a certain sobriety of treatment. It has been a little 
sad to have to write the memoirs of so many departed whom 
I once knew as friends in life. That this circumstance might 
not impart a too painfully sombre complexion to the whole work, 
I have accepted gladly everything that would contribute to 
variety and relief, which may account for a feature or a touch 
here and there. It has made me want to sport a little with those 
who still could smile back at me. I have preferred to let Class- 
mates speak for themselves wherever the data could be so used, 
and in all cases it has been my endeavor to reflect as closely as 
possible the humor and personality of the man. Several of the 
Sketches have been given as written by the subjects themselves 
or by their friends, without alteration, or almost so. Some 
have required a slighter or greater editing; some have been 
moulded by other hands after being shaped from the data by 
me. Thus the authorship is variously mixed ; however, I am 
responsible for very much the greater part, and in a work so 
largely composed of dates, names, and small details, the open- 
ings for errors are too numerous for me to hope that there 
will not be many, with all my care. 

It remains only to give All Hail to you, as I pass over these 
fruits of my labors into your hands. I am thankful that so many 
remain to see these days of prosperous change, when col- 

LEGIO NEO CAESARIENSIS of old has become UNIVERSITAS 

princetoniensis of to-day ; — and it is my fervent trust 
that each one of the Band, living or dead, who went out 
forty years ago in the earnestness of the old College motto, 
Prodesse quam Conspici, rest now and evermore in the benedic- 
tion written with the present University arms, Dei sub numine 
viget. Henry U. Swinnerton. 

Cherry Valley, A 7 . K, May 25, 1904. 



IN MEMORIAM 

It is painful to announce the death of our Classmate, Andrew 
Kirkpatrick, which took place from a sudden illness, May 3rd., 
instant, after these pages were in the hands of the printer. The 
event was widely noticed in the press with comments on the 
character, prominence and peculiarities of this very able jurist. 

Judge Kirkpatrick took a lively interest in this Book and has 
corresponded freely on the subject, his latest letter having a 
passage which is of pathetic interest in view of its intimation of 
a weariness which perhaps meant more than he realised when he 
wrote of it. The Class Historian had had occasion to mention 
to him a place here offered for occupancy during the summer 
months. He writes, under date April 15th., — " I have not been 
able for many years to go so far from home that I could not be 
in daily touch with Newark, and be able to go back and forth 
for the transaction of necessary business. I therefore go to a 
nearby place on the sea shore, instead of an inland place such 
as you suggest. I thank you, however, for calling my atten- 
tion to Cherry Valley, and assure you that in my present 
rather tired out condition I would be glad of the rest which it 
would afford." 

Hon. John Lind McAtee passed away in Chicago, June 13, 
1-904, after a four days' illness from paralysis caused by hemor- 
rhage of the brain. Our Classmate had just previously passed 
through an illness of two months from neuritis, which had 
greatly prostrated him, but from which he was hopeful of 
recovery. His only daughter and eldest son were with him. 



INDEX 

Atlantic Cable Celebration, see tinder sketch of McAtee. 

Classmates in the Civil War, see under Sketch of Sheldon. 

Degrees, Honorary and in Course, see under McGuire. 

Graduation and Final Standing, see under King. 

Mortuary Lists of Classmates, see under Lupton. 

Nativity of Classmates, see under Smythe. 

Occupations and Professions, see After-word. 

Officers of the Class, note upon, see under Stryker. 

Poem, The Blue and the Gray, by Rev. J. N. Marks, see 
under Marks. 

" Record of Sixty-three," Triennial Class Book, see under 
Sheldon. 

Reunions of the Class, decennial, see under Holmes. 




PRINCETON, SIXTY-THREE 

LEWIS K. ALBRO. A poor beginning maketh a good 
ending; and the whole of this Book were ill-judged by the 
sum and story of, its first two names. Albro was from Elizabeth, 
N. J., where the family is by some still remembered. He was 
with us only in the Sophomore year, and is not even men- 
tioned in the Class " Record " of 1866-7, our Triennial " Book," 
edited by our Classmate Sheldon. R. T. Haines writes that 
Albro went to Cincinnati soon after he left Princeton ; but 
the wife of a gentleman of the name who was born in that 
city states that to his knowledge there has never been an 
Albro there not of his family. The name lends an ingredient 
to the make-up of the Class, scarcely found elsewhere, which 
adds to its composite character. This lady writes, that some 
years ago she was anxious to establish her husband's eligibility 
to the Sons of the American Revolution, but the result of her 
researches, that the Albros were all notorious Tories in the 
Revolution, so disgusted him that he has refused ever since 
to be interested in their history. 



J. AMBROSE, Jr. No-men et praeterea nihil. The fact that 
his residence is given " New York City," is equivalent to his 
being " lost in London." Mr. Ambrose was with us only in 
the Freshman year; is said to have "polled intensely and left 
at the end." And he had not been heard from at the date of the 



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" Record " of 1866-7. He roomed at 27 West College, his room- 
mate being Isaac G. de G. Angus, of Elizabeth, who died, 
however, in 1885. A Henry Ambrose, of Salisbury,. Mass., 
came over in 1640, whose descendants there, Henry, John, etc., 
are traced to 1746, — and there an end. 

JOHN SMITH BACKUS, M.D., was born in the Parson- 
age of the First Presbyterian Church in Baltimore, Md., where 
his father was pastor, April 20, 1841. He was of a family of 
distinction in the Presbyterian ministry, identified with Al- 
bany, N. Y. and Weathersfield in Connecticut. His father, 
Dr. John Chester Backus, one of two eminent brothers, singu- 
larly handsome men of great ability, both of whom were Mod- 
erators of General Assembly, was a Director of Princeton 
Seminary, and died in 1884. His mother was Letitia C. 
Cooper, of Philadelphia. The father and the uncle, Jonathan 
Trumbull Backus, of the First Church, Schenectady, had each 
a single long pastorate, the one of thirty-nine, the other of 
forty-one years. 

Our Classmate entered the Class in 1861 as a Junior, and 
graduated in 1863. He took a diploma from the Baltimore 
Medical College in 1866, and within a year or so went to 
Europe for further medical study in Germany, and died at 
Berlin, Prussia, in 1871, at the age of thirty years. 

Backus was tenderly considered by his fellow students, in 
view of the incurable lameness which set him at inevitable dis- 
advantage. There was no mighty Lorenz within call at his 
birth, with mercifully cruel hands to repair the natal mishap 
which was to maim his happiness and shorten his life. Yet 
he was of a smiling, cheerful disposition, with something 
sweetly childlike about him that appealed to us all, and even 
now gives a tinge of pleasure to the sadness of his memory. 

A.B and A.M. 

WILLIAM CHESTER BAIRD is of a scholarly family 
closely associated with Princeton through a long series of 
years, as instructors, however, rather than as of the student 
body, except in the Seminary. As he explains in the notice 
given in the " Record " of 1866-7, he was diverted from his 
plans of a professional life by the death of both his parents 



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about the time of his graduation. He is one of a number who 
commenced College life with us whose personality made an 
ineffaceable impression and whose withdrawal was felt as a 
distinct loss. He was with us during our Freshman year, 
and then entered New York University, where he took his 
A.B. in regular course in 1863. His brother, considerably older, 
became professor of the Greek language there in '59. He was 
named for Rev. Dr. William Chester, a Director of the Seminary, 
for many years connected with the Presbyterian Board of 
Education, and a warm personal friend of his father. 

He was born in Geneva, Switzerland, October 11, 1842, the son 
of Rev. Dr. Robert Baird, who was Secretary and Agent in 
Europe of the Foreign Evangelical Society, whose wife was 
Fermine Ophelia Amaryllis Du Buisson. Dr. Baird, (who 
was from Fayette county in southern Pennsylvania), was a 
Jefferson College man and while studying in the Seminary 
was a Tutor in Princeton College, and afterwards for some 
years Principal of the Princeton Academy. He subsequently 
carried on his successful life work in the service of several 
Missionary, Sunday School and Evangelical Societies in this 
country and on the Continent of Europe, leading up to the 
American and Foreign Christian Union, of which he was 
" magna pars," contributing greatly to the cause of pure relig- 
ion in European countries. Few men of that period were 
more widely known and more widely acquainted than Doctor 
Baird. Their residence was at Yonkers, and the elder brothers, 
Charles W. and Henry M., as well as two nephews of our 
Classmate, Robert, and Henry Martyn Baird, Jr., all studied 
at the University in the neighboring city. Henry M. Baird 
was, like his father, a Tutor at Princeton during his Seminary 
course, has received many literary distinctions and has long 
been professor of Greek in his University. After his gradua- 
tion Mr. Baird served the country in the war of the Rebellion 
as a private in the 17th N. Y. State militia in 1863. 

Prevented from following his plans of study, Mr. Baird in 
1864 went into manufacturing business in New York, which 
proving unremunerative at first, he made trial briefly of fresh 
fields, tempting success in Nevada, but soon returned to New 
York again, embarking in commercial and manufacturing lines 
in which he has spent the years since. He has a strong musical 



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predilection, the taste for which he has always done some- 
thing to promote and encourage in the circles about him. He 
was Conductor of Music in the Clinton Avenue Congregational 
Church, from 1872 to 1898, and was Conductor of the Chester 
Glee Club, an active musical organization of Brooklyn, from 
1884 till 1891. He was a founder of the N. Y. Vocal Society, 
which enjoyed unexampled success, and was for thirty years 
a member of the Mendelssohn and the English Glee Clubs, etc. 
Mr. Baird married, June 23, 1886, Grace Summer, daughter 
of Williams Andrews Williams, of Tarrytown, his present resi- 
dence, his office being at 66 West 22nd street, New York. His 
son, Alfred Clark Summer Baird, was born November 1, 1894. 

THEODORE ALLING BALDWIN is a veteran mission- 
ary of the American Board in Asiatic Turkey, who has labored 
with success now for many years at Broussa, just south of the 
Sea of Marmora, and on the northwest flank of Mount Olym- 
pus, — Prussa ad Olypum, in fact, — the old capital city of an 
ancient kingdom, which gave the title Prusias to the kings of 
Bithynia. It seems like a suitable place for a staving Greek 
scholar at home with his Iliad and such. It is comforting to 
be able to add that this Olympian seat has not been the scene 
of any of the painful experiences to which so many of the 
missionaries in Turkey have been exposed. 

Baldwin was born in Newark, N. J., November 1, 1843, — 
next door neighbor to the present Class Historian, in Mul- 
berry street ad Boudinot, and playmate and schoolmate for all 
the earlier years of boyhood. It was historic ground, — a farm 
of the family of that Elias Boudinot, who was President of the 
Continental Congress, First President of the American Bible 
Society, and a Trustee of our old College. His father was 
Samuel A. Baldwin, an Alderman of the City, and prominent 
supporter of the old First Church, over which our Princeton 
contemporary Dr. D. R. Frazer now presides, and in which 
our, Classmate Nichols and Baldwin's brother Frederick are 
officers. The family is of the oldest, and has been identified 
with the settlement and history of Newark and that part of 
New Jersey from the middle of the seventeenth century. His 
mother was Letitia D. Ward, of another of the oldest and most 
respected Newark families. 



Princeton, Sixty-three 11 

Unbeknown ,to his old neighbor, the families having separ- 
ated for some years, Baldwin prepared for College in Newark 
under John Provost, and the two were surprised to meet each 
other on the Campus and to find themselves in the,same Class, 
at the beginning of the Sophomore year, August, i860. Bald- 
win at once took a high standing, and with a grade of 98.8 
graduated second only to that tough competitor, Mcllvaine's, 
99.4. Truly it was not in our Class that the feeblest students 
went as missionaries! 

After graduation, the country being in the midst of the 
throes of war, he served as did many of the students, during 
a vacation of six weeks in the Christian Commission, , at work 
among the sick and wounded soldiers, at Camp Nelson, near 
Lexington, Kentucky. After that for fourteen months he was 
in the Quartermaster's Department in the same camp and at 
Lexington. 

In the fall of 1864 he went to Princeton Seminary, where he 
graduated in May, 1867. He offered himself without delay 
as a missionary to the American Board, with which the New- 
school branch of the Church then cooperated in its foreign 
work, and being accepted, proceeded to marry the lovely 
Newark girl who had promised to go with him, — Miss Matilda 
J. Layton, daughter of Wm. E. Layton, Esq., of Newark, 
May 8, 1867. 

His first field of service was in Constantinople, — that hub 
of the world, — where he labored from 1867 till 1870, acquiring 
the Armenian language and getting otherwise ready for the 
work. For the next five years he was at Magnesia ad Sipylum, 
— Manissa, as the Turks call it. It is on the river Hermus, in 
ancient Lydia, at the northern base of Mount Sipylus, and just 
over the mountain from the important seaport of Smyrna. You 
could have met old man Herodotus or Solon or Croesus here 
any day, some twenty-five centuries ago. Here he became 
familiar with the Turkish speech. 

In 1876 he removed to Constantinople again and became 
Treasurer of the American Missions in Turkey and Persia, 
which he continued until the Fall of 1880, when he relin- 
quished that position to engage in more direct evangelical 
work. ,He was settled in Broussa in 1880 and has been there 
now for twenty-four years, with only one vacation in this 



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country, from January till the first of August in 1888. With 
patience, yet with confidence of the certain result, — with prog- 
ress slow to the eye as a watch's minute hand, yet as sure 
as the coming of to-morrow, he has kept at it and will so do. 
Mrs. Baldwin has given much of her time and strength during 
this long, unbroken period to educational work, and has the 
satisfaction of seeing a number of her graduates in positions 
of usefulness in different parts of the Turkish empire and in 
this country. 

Mr. and Mrs. Baldwin have no children. They have just 
arrived in their home land for a vacation of a few months, 
which they expect to spend in Newark and the vicinity, and 
nothing would please them more than to see, or at least, hear 
from, the brethren of '63. 

Address, care of Mr. B. W. Jones, JJ Beekman street, New 
York City. 

Baldwin was a tremendous " shortstop " at baseball, and 
would be what they call now a Christian athlete, with his 
picture in all the, sporting papers; — only we didn't go to Col- 
lege for that sort of thing in our day ! A.B. and A.M. 

THOMAS J. BALLARD was a son of Judge Thomas J. and 
Kettura Ballard, ,of Fairmount, on the eastern shore of Mary- 
land, overlooking Tangier Sound, where he was born, June 4, 
1 841. " His father was for many years Judge of the Orphans' 
Court, of Somerset county," writes Judge J. Upshur Dennis, 
of Baltimore, (Princeton, '65), who was Ballard's schoolfellow 
at the old Washington Academy at Princess Anne. " The 
family has lived in Somerset 200 years, and has always main- 
tained a high position. I always regarded Tom Ballard as 
the brightest and most capable man at the Academy in my day, 
although not a few of them have since achieved high positions 
on the roll of honor. He was greatly gifted and had already 
acquired high scholarship before he entered Princeton." 

He joined the Class early in 1861, Sophomore half-advanced, 
and on February 7th following he wrote his father, that he was 
very homesick, the southern students had gone, or were going. 
The yearning for home was upon him, perhaps as one over 
whom the coming physical catastrophe was gathering. Mrs. 
Ballard, his stepmother, states that he was only a few months 



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in j Princeton, he had to be brought home on account of sick- 
ness, and died on the 14th of the October following, 1861. 

MARTIN VOORHEES BERGEN is a long-established 
law practitioner of Camden, N. J., whose legal attainments 
and reliability of character were recognized last year 
by his appointment as Judge of the District Court of his city. 
He is a descendant of the, old Bergen family, of Netherlands 
origin, after whom Bergen county in New Jersey is named ; 
and he and Christopher Augustus Bergen, his brother, are of 
the eighth generation of the name and family in this country. 
The common ancestor of the family, who originally settled on 
Long Island, was Hans Hansen Bergen, of Bergen in Norway, 
who removed thence to Holland, and thence again, in 1633, 
to New Amsterdam, now New York. Some of his descendants 
removed from Long Island about fifty years later, and settled 
in the valleys west of the Hudson in what is now Bergen 
county and within the territory which was later to be known 
as New Jersey, then a part of the Dutch colony. 

With his brother he prepared for College at the Edge Hill 
school at Princeton, ,and joined us in the Class at the begin- 
ning of the Sophomore year. He entered the law office of his 
uncle, the late Peter L. Voorhees, of Camden, who was a 
leading legal authority of that part ,of New Jersey. In due 
time he was admitted to the bar as an attorney by the Supreme 
Court of the State, in November, 1866, and as counsellor at 
law in the fall of 1869, since which time, mostly in partnership 
with his brother Christopher, under the firm and style of Ber- 
gen and Bergen, of Camden, he has practiced law in that city. 

Since the illness of Mr. Christopher Bergen, in 1894, 
which occasioned his withdrawal from the firm, he has prac- 
ticed alone. 

Mr. Bergen was married in February, 1880, to Mary Agnes 
Atkinson, but has no children. He was for many years Super- 
intendent of the Public Schools of the city of Camden, to 
which position he was re-elected repeatedly, and from which 
he resigned in the past year, 1903. On April 1st, 1902 he was 
appointed by Governor Murphy of New Jersey, Judge of the 
District Court of the city of Camden, which judicial position 
he still occupies. 



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The Class Historian is prompted to say, from, sources in full 
knowledge and on which we may rely, that Judge Bergen is 
as popular in the county in which he lives, and with its bar, 
as he was with us at Princeton ; and if any were looking for 
an able and conscientious legal man in any of those courts, to 
take charge of a case, he would be exceedingly well advised if 
he chose Martin V. Bergen, or for that matter the other mem- 
ber of the firm as well. A. B. and A. M. 

CHRISTOPHER A. BERGEN, whose parentage and 
ancestry are mentioned in this sketch of his brother, Martin 
V. Bergen, was born in Bridgepoint, Somerset county, New 
Jersey, August 2, 1841 ; was prepared for College at Edge 
Hill Classical school, Princeton, and entered with his brother. 
After graduation, he turned for a time to teaching, — 
first a country school at Hopewell in Mercer county, and 
afterwards in a private school of his own which he established 
at Princeton, — pursuing at the same time law studies under 
the direction of his uncle Mr. Voorhees, of Camden. In No- 
vember 1866, he was licensed as an attorney, and in the fall 
of 1869 as counsellor, by the New Jersey Supreme Court. He 
opened a law office in partnership with his brother, Martin 
Voorhees Bergen, and through his legal attainments and for- 
ensic abilities soon became known as a prominent and suc- 
cessful member of the Camden county bar. 

Mr. Bergen has been twice married. His first wife was Har- 
riet James, daughter of Thomas D. and Augusta S. James, to 
whom he was married August 5, 1869. Two sons were the 
offspring of this union ; the first, George J. Bergen, graduated 
from Princeton in 1891, and is at present a practicing lawyer 
in Camden, married to a daughter of former Attorney-General 
Grey of New Jersey. The second son, Martin V. Bergen, Jr., 
graduated from Princeton in 1892, and is a member of the bar 
of Philadelphia, and there practicing. 

His second wife, whom he married January 26, 1886, was 
Fannie C. Hirst, daughter of the late William L. and Adele 
C. Hirst, by which marriage there are four children. 

For many years after being admitted to the, bar, Christopher 
A. and Martin V. Bergen composed the firm of Bergen and 
Bergen, practicing in the city of Camden, the co-partnership 



Princeton, Sixty-three 15 

being dissolved only when the subject of this sketch became 
incapacitated from further legal services, in the year 1894. 
Mr. Bergen has never been an active politician. However he 
is a pronounced Republican in his views and position, and 
was elected President of the Camden County Republican Club 
in 1886. In the fall of 1888 he was elected Representative in 
the Congress of the United States, from the first District of 
New Jersey. To this position he was a second time elected 
in 1900. On the completion of his terms in Congress he re- 
sumed the active practice of his profession. 

In 1894 Mr. Bergen's health was subjected to strain and, 
indeed, broken down, by over-work and the severe exactions 
of business, resulting in his being stricken with a paralytic 
attack, by which he was suddenly prostrated while engaged in 
an argument in court. Successive strokes followed, from the 
effects of which he has not yet so far recovered as to be able 
to resume the active , practice of his profession. He is now 
living in his seaside cottage at Atlantic City, N. J., with his 
family, and is happily able to enjoy occasional visits from old 
friends. Although confined to his apartment and physically 
much deprived, our Classmate Nichols, who frequently calls 
upon Mr. Bergen, reports him mentally sound and stout- 
hearted, still hopeful that time will restore him some portion 
of his former vigor, — a splendid example of a man rising 
superior to the assault of misfortune. On these visits the 
friend of old time is always met with a hearty welcome in 
memory of the happy associations of earlier days. 

The Class so far venture upon there being " something " in 
faith-cure, as to believe that their hopes and good wishes, — 
and their prayers, — may make our good Chris's most sanguine 
anticipations true. A. B. and A. M. 

STEPHEN ALEXANDER BOVELL, editor of the Herald 
and Tribune of Jonesboro, Tennessee, has his home at Lime- 
stone, near by, in one of the mountain valleys of Washington 
county. Although deterred by recent sickness and " hardly 
able to do what I have done," he gives his story as below. One 
of the Meccas of lifelong desire, as the pilgrim's longing to 
see Jerusalem and of Paul to " see Rome," is the old collegian's 
desire to " see Princeton before I die." He says : 



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I know very little about our class ; I have been North sev- 
eral times since the war, but have never visited Princeton. I 
want to go there once more before I " shuffle off the mortal 
coil." 

I have had my ups and downs, prosperities and adversities, 
so far in life, but have been able to maintain a happy middle 
ground between poverty and wealth. I have been a newspaper 
editor for most of the time, and have acquired some distinc- 
tion in this field. My vocation perhaps accounts for my im- 
munity from the worries and torments of riches. For many 
years I have been the editor of the Herald and Tribune, a Re- 
publican newspaper, published at Jonesboro, Tennessee, the 
capital of the " lost State of Franklin " and the first capital 
of Tennessee. 

Within eight miles of this old town are Washington College 
and Salem Church, which are the first Church and the first 
institution of learning west of the Alleghanies, and they were 
founded by the Reverend Samuel Doak, D.D., who was a 
graduate of Princeton in 1783. I was a student of this College 
five years before going to Princeton. It was at Brownsboro 
in this county of Washington that I was born, May 3, 1842 ; 
and I have been told that I could read at four, write and 
" cipher " at five, and had read the Bible twice through before 
I was six. At the age of thirteen I had read Virgil, Xenophon, 
Caesar, Livy and Homer. 

I am German on my mother's side, and Scotch-Irish and 
French on my father's. My paternal great grandfather Bovell 
was a French Huguenot and a Presbyterian minister; his son 
Stephen, a Presbyterian minister also, and my father a learned 
and distinguished physician. The Bovell family is noted for 
its large number of Presbyterian ministers named after the 
first martyr and whose name I bear also, and the fact that 
I do not wear the ministerial robe is not attributable to any 
lack in home training and in the Princeton influences. 

Although I was there but a short time, I feel that I owe 
much to Princeton College. It was a revelation to me, I loved 
its associations and the most fragrant memories cling around 
its classic shades. 

And the boys of the Class of '63, — the '63 of a century gone, 
— it seems that I can recollect them all as they answered to 



Princeton, Sixty-three 17 

the roll call. Oh, Time, how cruel are thy ravages ! I have 
seen but two of them since I left College, John A. Gammon 
and Rowland Cox whom I met by accident, happening to be 
traveling on the same train. I have heard of but one other, 
Samuel M. Inman of Georgia. A noble, generous-hearted and 
pious boy, it was logical that he made a distinguished and suc- 
cessful man in the business world. , 

I have been married twice. There were three children by 
my first wife. Two are dead and the other, a boy of sixteen 
years old, is living near Chicago. My last wife is childless. 
My address is Limestone, Tenn. (R. F. D., route 2), within 
three miles of the " first Church and the first institution of 
learning west of the Alleghanies," within two , miles of the 
birthplace of Davy Crockett, and the same distance from the 
birthplace and home of Doctor David Nelson author of that 
wonderful book, " The Cause and Cure of Infidelity " and of 
that immortal hymn, " My days are gliding swiftly by." 

CHARLES HENRY BRECKINRIDGE, whose middle 
name points to the Henry family of Virginia patriot fame, 
graduated at. West Point Military Academy, June, 1865; was 
commissioned in the 15th U. S. Infantry as second lieutenant, 
and died of yellow fever at Fort Morgan, Mobile Bay, Septem- 
ber 9, 1866. , \v . : '■■■ 

His mother was Sophronista Preston, who died when he 
was but a few months old. He was born in Baltimore, in the 
Manse, of the Second Presbyterian Church, September 9, 1844, 
— his father, Rev. Robert J. Breckinridge, being the Pastor at 
the time, and contemporary of Dr. Backus in the First Church. 
As with him and his brother, there were three brothers Breck- 
inridge, being the only ones who reached middle age, who 
were Moderators of the General Assembly. The extended an- 
cestry of this family is given in the first and second of the Year 
Books of the Sons of the American Revolution. The names 
of those connected with Princeton make up a long list, the 
Rev. John Breckinridge, an uncle of our Classmate, being a 
Professor in the Seminary; Dr. Benjamin Breckinridge War- 
field, now of the Seminary, and President Ethelbert L. D. 
Warfield of Lafayette, being his nephews. Judge Samuel 
Miller Breckinridge, the father of Mrs. R. K. Cross, wife of 



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■ 

one of our number, was a first cousin to him, and he was elder 
half-brother to Major-General Joseph C. Breckinridge, U. S. A. 
His father became President of, Jefferson College, and after- 
wards settled at Lexington, Kentucky, as pastor, and as Pro- 
fessor in the Seminary at Danville. Here, at Centre College, 
Charles received his preparation for Princeton, and he joined 
us as Sophomore in November, i860, rooming in the old Re- 
fectory. At the end of that year he adopted the military 
career and went to West Point. His promotion to First Lieu- 
tenant was of same date as his first appointment at his gradua- 
tion. He was stationed at Mobile and at Macon, Ga., where 
he was made Assistant Adjutant-General of the Department 
of the South, after which he was successively in command of 
posts at Huntsville, Mount Vernon Arsenal and Fort Gaines, 
near Mobile. He later held Fort. Morgan, and it must have 
been but a little before the melancholy end that, in 1866, he 
wrote the Class Annalist, of his being " overwhelmed with 
business " as Judge Advocate of the Court of Inquiry into the 
recent riots in Mobile. He died at Fort Morgan, August 27th, 
that year, of the terrible disease, " contracted," as the Order 
of his regiment recites, " by personal attendance during the 
fatal illness of his West Point Classmate and friend, Lieuten- 
ant J. K. Heslop, Corps of Engineers " (who had just arrived 
from elsewhere infected with the disease), "and, although in 
receipt of a leave of absence, he remained at his post to abide 
the event of sickness in his command, apprehended from a 
death among them by so dire a malady." A shade of even 
sadder romance and tragedy is cast over the story of this 
young life so suddenly closed, by the fact which this official 
statement hides — the leave was for his wedding, the day of the 
marriage was set, and a casual newspaper mention of what 
had occurred was the only warning to the expectant bride of 
the event which changed her wreaths to ashes. 

JAMES VAN ALLEN BUTLER, A.B., Princeton, '64. 
One of the brightest glimpses in the " Record " of our Trien- 
nial days is that given in the extract from a letter from Butler, 
in which he tells gaily of his movements and his prospects ; 
how, as we knew, he left Princeton in our Sophomore year, in 
the middle of May, 1861 ; went right out to Chicago, his early 



Princeton, Sixty-three 19 

home, and after some months' stay, studied law at Dixon in 
Illinois, less than half a year; when, in August, 1862, he came 
back to Princeton and joined the class of '64. He regularly 
graduated with them ; taught at Fishkill on the Hudson a year, 
in the family of Charles M. Woolcott, and then returned to 
Chicago. He continues : " In May, 1865, I went into the 
office of Arrington and Dent, to prosecute my law studies. I 
have been in that office two years to-day, which is rather a 
coincidence. I was admitted to the bar in the month of 
March, 1867 ; I expect soon to start for myself. If I complete 
my arrangements soon I will let you know before you publish 
the Report. I expect to reside permanently in Chicago. I am 
not married, and have no intention of trying my luck in that 
direction — at least for the present. I have no children to en- 
title me to any Class cradle." P. O. Address, 122 Lake street, 
Chicago. 

A cerebral disorder supervened not long after, and the sunny 
picture thus shown closed down, like evening's brilliant glories, 
in a darkness that has ieft no subsequent glimmer, but the 
curt, dry official note of the Medical Superintendent, Dr. John 
W. Ward, of Trenton: ." Died, March 14, 1903." So it lasted 
till this fortieth year ! 

The strange mystery of misfortune, so irrespective of desert, 
exterior promise or inward attractive qualities, drives us to the 
Hope of another life, in which the half-done design shall be 
completed, and the sad inequalities shall be made even ! In 
our Class photograph albums is the singularly sweet profile 
likeness of this young Classmate, as pure and beautiful a face 
as artist ever painted, or ever won the love of woman. 

A. B. 1864, and A. M. 

AUGUSTUS CASS CANFIELD. The Iron Era of Dover, 
Morris county, N. J., of date May 15, 1891, observed " No 
funeral service in this county ever brought together a greater 
number of its representative men than that of ex-Senator 
Augustus C. Canfield, Saturday, May 9th, at Succasunny." 

It mentions among " those prominent in the iron industry 
who were present, Superintendent Edward S. Moffatt, of the 
Lackawanna furnaces at Scranton," there to honor the memory 
of his college friend. There were floral tributes from the 



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" employees of the Ferro Monte railway and of the Dickerson 
mine, and from the Grand Jury, who ( with the county officers 
attended in a body." From the words of Job, " The Spirit of 
God hath made me, and the breath of the Almighty hath given 
me understanding," the preacher pointed out that in these 
days much is made of ancestry, but in the Scriptures our an- 
cestry is traced directly to God ; and herein consists the value 
and dignity of life. Hence the appeal for living to, honor God. 
Life is God's gift for service, of which the career of the de- 
ceased was a pertinent illustration. " What he was as a citizen, 
friend and neighbor is known ; his career in public life and his 
fidelity to principle are known, and his record as a friend is in 
the hearts of his friends." 

He was laid at rest beside his father and the members of the 
family in the cemetery adjoining the Church. Mention was 
made that his services in legislative halls are shown by in- 
creased facilities for travel, for which the people of New Jersey 
throughout are his debtors; and that no greater acknowledg- 
ment of respect could be paid by the men of his own county 
than was shown in the concourse attending the burial of Sen- 
ator Canfield. 

The family of Senator Canfield have been prominent in de- 
veloping the various industries connected with the production 
of iron, from the important deposits of rich ore which dis- 
tinguished this region. Frederick Canfield was a nephew of 
Mahlon Dickerson, Governor of New Jersey and Secretary of 
the Navy under Jackson and Van Buren. He was the father of 
our Classmate, who was born at the family residence, Ferro 
Monte, May 4, 1842, and was just forty-nine years old at his 
death. He prepared for College at Chester, near by, under 
Rev. William Rankin, and joined our Class in the Sophomore 
year. Upon his graduation he entered the office of Jacob 
Vanatta, of Morristown, where he was admitted in 1867, and 
practised law for some time in that place. His election to the 
New Jersey Assembly in 1871 began an important political 
career which was marked by signal service to the State. 
Elected as a Democrat over his Republican antagonist, he was 
in 1872 re-elected without Republican opposition, and again, 
although defeated for the Senatorship in 1874 by Hon. John 
Hill, he in 1877 carried the county by a great majority. By his 



Princeton, Sixty-three 21 

agency, at an opportune time, a general railroad bill was passed 
with great effect, which gave a new freedom to transportation 
affairs in New Jersey, and resulted in the construction of new 
railways that have, developed every part of the State, bring- 
ing incalculable benefits and wealth to the people. Through 
this service Mr. Canfield became for a time one of the best 
known and most popular men in New Jersey. In general 
politics he was a protectionist Democrat. 

Retiring from political life he devoted himself to promoting 
local projects, to the interests of the Dickerson-Succasunny 
Mining Company, and the Ferro, Monte Railroad. He was a 
Director of the Longwood Valley Railroad, of the Lake Hop- 
atcong Improvement Company and of the Morris County Sav- 
ings Bank. 

Canfield never married ; of great good nature and unfailing 
humor, he was both practical and serviceable, a friend of the 
working people, who felt that they could always command in 
him the hand of an able helper, gratuitously as well as dis- 
interestedly devoted to the interests of his neighbours and 
friends rather than to selfish ends of his own. Largely 
through his efforts and through personal study and attention 
to the problem, the roads of his vicinity were made into a 
system of boulevards perfect and beautiful. 

Princeton and the Class of '63 have in A. C. Canfield, if 
all representations are not fallacious, an example that does 
them credit. " His thorough education " is cited by the au- 
thority above mentioned, as " culture of the man and his qual- 
ities, augmented by incessant reading, and we doubt if there 
was a better informed man in the county upon all topics of 
general interest and utility." Says the Iron Era in another 
column : " As the funeral procession passed out of the an- 
cient Revolutionary Church that day at Succasunny, a work- 
ing man with saddened face and with tears in his eyes, said to 
a friend, ' This is the only time I ever saw Senator Canfield 
when he did not speak to me.' Many tributes have been paid 
to his memory, but none more eloquent or greater with mean- 
ing than this ; for there is no better estimate of a man's merit 
as a citizen than the good will which awakens the grief of the 
humble and lowly when he shall have been called home." 

His death was due to a sudden attack of the heart from 



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rheumatism, with which he had suffered for some years. His 
younger brother, Edmund, having died a number of years 
before, Mr. Frederick A. Canfield, of Dover, remains the only 
representative of the family in his generation. 

He was in the seventh generation from Thomas Canfield, 
who settled in Milford, Conn., in 1646. Three of his great 
grandfathers served in the War of Independence, and the 
father of the fourth was a member of the Provincial Congress 
of New Jersey, the son himself being engaged in making iron 
and flour to " help the thing along! " A.B. and A.M. 

FRANCIS BARBER CHETWOOD is a Clergyman of the 
Protestant Episcopal Church in New York City. 

He studied Theology at the Episcopal General Theological 
Seminary in New York for two years, and at Divinity Hall, 
Philadelphia, for one year, where he graduated. He was 
ordained to the Diaconate by Bishop Odenheimer, of New 
Jersey in 1866, and the same year became assistant to the 
Rector of the Church at Lambertville. He was Rector at 
Keyport in 1870, and at Claremont in 1871. Since relinquishing 
that parish he has been employed in Secretarial and Mission 
work in New York, long in offices at the Bible House and 
later for a series of years at the Church Mission House, Fourth 
avenue and Twenty-second street, having his residence part 
of the time at Hartford, Conn., and part of the time in Eliza- 
beth, his old home. His present address is given as 49 West 
Twentieth street, New York City. 

He was the son of Francis B. and Elizabeth (Phelps) Chet- 
wood, and was born at Elizabeth, N. J., December 8, 1842. He 
was fitted for College at Pearl Cottage with other of our Class- 
mates, and came into our number in August, i860, receiving in 
due course the usual degrees of A. B. and A. M. Chetwood was 
a most agreeable fellow, as we felt, thoroughly in spirit with 
us all, and the Class Historian is glad to give as his salutation, 
" I wish you and every member of the Class of '63 good luck 
in the name of the Lord ! " A. B. and A. M. 

JAMES FRANCIS CLARK, whose home was in Philadel- 
phia, was born in New Jersey. He joined us at the beginning 
of the Sophomore year ; was one of our brightest men, with a 



Princeton, Sixty-three 23 

final standing of 96.6, and graduated fourth, receiving the 
Belle Lettres Oration. He contemplated the ministry and 
entered the Princeton Theological Seminary in 1864, studying 
there part of two years, according to our Triennial " Record," 
but was already in ill health in 1866. 

The asterisk affixed to his name in the General Catalogue 
of the College is an error. Last July the brief word was re- 
ceived from a relative : " Has been an invalid in a hospital 
since graduation." A.B. 

Clifton Wharton Clifton, 550 Park Avenue, New York, appears 
among the non-graduate members of our Class, in the Princeton 
Directory for 1892. Mr. Clifton is just our kind of delightful 
gentleman, and we should be proud to have him, but he is an 
Hon. A.B. of '64. 

NATHANIEL, BRYANT COLMAN, M.D., Assistant Sur- 
geon in the Civil War, resides at Los Gatos, California. He 
was born at Vassalboro, Maine, October 13, 1833, the son of 
Charles M. and Mary Bryant Colman. His ancestry on both 
sides settled near Cape Cod, early in the Seventeenth Century. 
He studied at Yarmouth and Waterville Academies, in Maine, 
and entered Colby University, in the last named place, in 1859, 
and while there affiliated with the Delta Upsilon fraternity. 
He transferred to Princeton in the fall of i860. In the spring 
of the next year the death of a brother called him to Maine, and 
the outbreak of the war put an end to his College course. 

He entered the army as Hospital Steward, August 18, 1862, 
in the 17th Maine Vol. Inf., and was promoted to Assistant 
Surgeon, November 23, 1863, in which rank he served through 
the war. 

In 1865 he graduated in Medicine at Dartmouth College ; and 
practiced his profession of Medicine and Surgery in Ports- 
mouth, N. H., eight years. In 1874 he visited Europe, and in 
1878 went to California, practicing in San Francisco five years. 
In 1883 he removed to the State of Washington and settled 
at Montesano, in the western part of the State. Here in 
1886-7 ne was a member of the City Council, and in 1888 was 
Mayor of the city. He is a member of the State Medical 
societies of Maine, Massachusetts, California and Oregon, and 



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was in continuous service as a medical practitioner from 1866 
to 1898, besides his four years of hospital and medical service 
in the army, — thirty-six years for the relief of human ills. 

In 1866 Dr. Colman married Miss Leonora Wilson, of Gor- 
ham, Me. There are no children. 

In 1894 he became editor of National Reform, a Prohibition 
journal. He has been, debarred of late years from professional 
duty by rheumatism, which also incapacitates him from 
manual labor, except light work, and he follows the pursuit 
of an " Orchardist " in a small way. 

He writes, — " Your letter gives me much satisfaction and 
pleasure. I thank you for its spirit of fellowship of days lang 
syne. My stay at Princeton was so very brief that, after so 
much lapse of time, I feel hardly entitled to a place in the 
Class. I cannot, of course, refuse your kind request to include 
my name and life sketch in the forthcoming Book. You are 
truly prosecuting a worthy and difficult task. 

The Civil War was hard on Princeton. I remember very 
distinctly the flag-raising over it in '61, and the scattering of 
its students immediately after. I thank you for the names 
of the many you have found after so much hunting." 

HARRY COX, the elder of two brothers who were insepar- 
able in all the early incidents of their lives, and afterwards 
were partners in the practice of law, was born on October 1st, 
1840, in Philadelphia, where the family then resided. The 
parents were John Cooke and Annie Johns, his wife, daughter of 
Judge Jos. Galloway Rowland, of the Supreme Court of Dela- 
ware. Mr. Archibald Cox of New York, in giving his informa- 
tion remarks, "I am at a loss ito discover anything 'picturesque' 
in connection with the ancestry of my father and uncle, unless 
it may be found in the fact that their great grandfather, Col- 
onel Charles Stockly, of the eastern shore of Maryland, spent 
nine months of his service in the Continental army in a prison 
ship in New York harbor." 

The two boys were prepared for College in Quincy, Illinois, 
where the family had removed meantime, under a Mr. Rich- 
ards, whether as tutor in the household or keeping a small 
private school. They were together constantly until they en- 
tered College in the Freshman Class at Princeton, where they 



Princeton, Sixty-three 25 

roomed together at 43 North. Harry, however, was com- 
pelled to leave College in the Sophomore year on account of 
the failure of his health, and .the same cause which thus 
abridged his education placed him at some disadvantage all 
his life and ultimately cut him off while still in comparative 
youth. 

He studied law and was admitted to the bar at Quincy, where 
he practiced his profession with his brother until 1868. In 
that year he removed to Washington, D. C, the business of 
the firm having developed in the line of the law of patent right. 
Here he continued engaged in the work of legal practice in 
partnership with Rowland Cox, until his death, which occurred 
July 4th, 1878. Mr. Harry Cox never married. 

ROWLAND COX, one of the foremost lawyers in the city 
of New York, in the lines of his special practice, was born in 
Philadelphia, July 9, 1842. He was younger brother to Harry 
Cox, preceding, prepared with him at Quincy, 111., and en- 
tered Freshman. He won the Alpha, medal for English com- 
position, and ranked well in the Class. In 1862, shortly after 
the opening of the Senior year he left College to enter the 
army, which he did at Philadelphia in company with Mont- 
gomery Hamilton and John Magee Williams ; at the same 
time Henri Holden and MacLeod Thomson left and enlisted 
in New Jersey. Mr. Hamilton's statements are as follows : 
" About Rowland Cox, — I knew him as well as I did any one 
in College, and after events threw us even more closely to- 
gether. Williams, Cox and I enlisted at the same time in the 
15th Pennsylvania Cavalry, and were messmates for some 
months. We were the only Princeton men, (except Humph- 
reys, '64), who were in that regiment, at first called ' Buell's 
Body Guard ' and also ' Anderson's Cavalry.' We were all 
three promoted, or rather, received commissions from separate 
States, mainly through home influence. Cox was appointed 
on McPherson's staff and was present when the General was 
killed. Those who left in the Senior year of the Class of '63, 
were promised their degree, and some of them certainly re- 
ceived it. I can recall only six. Two, Stanfield and Henry 
M. Williams, left in Junior." 

He served as a private with that regiment, on detached duty, 



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for about a year. In 1863 he was appointed Assistant Adju- 
tant-General, with the rank of Captain, and assigned to the 
staff of General McPherson, as above stated, and was with 
him constantly until the time of his death. Upon that event 
he was assigned to the staff of General Grant; but he was 
then in Georgia, and in some way the order did not reach 
him for some three months. During an interval he served 
with General Moore. Meanwhile the place on Grant's staff 
was filled, and Captain Cox was assigned to the staff of 
General Blair, with whom he remained until December, 
1865, when he resigned. He was brevetted Major at the close 
of the war. 

He returned to Quincy where he studied law, and was ad- 
mitted April 1, 1866. He remained practicing for two years, 
and then moved first to Washington, where he practiced from 
1868 to 1875. He gained important recognition in the Durham 
Tobacco case and others involving difficult points of patent 
right, copyright and delicate questions bearing on unfair com- 
petition. The importance of this work led him to remove to 
the city of New York, where he was engaged until his death, 
May 13, 1900. He received the degree of LL.B. from Prince- 
ton, at what date does not appear. 

Mr. Cox's legal labors included most conspicuously the 
branch of law last mentioned, leading up to a number of de- 
cisions upon points to which he had devoted much attention 
and upon which his arguments were held in very great respect, 
as well by the Bench of the various courts, as by discriminat- 
ing members of the profession. The chapter of the law relating 
to unfair competition in business which is perhaps the most 
enlightened to be found in the books on the subject, has been 
written almost entirely within the last twenty-five years, r and 
it is generally recognized that no one hand had a larger part 
than his in developing the conclusions in that beneficent 
achievement. Hamilton writes, " He was counsel in the 
' Encyclopedia Britannica ' case, and in the ' Mumm's Cham- 
pagne ' case, in which points concerning trade marks were 
at issue, and he conducted them successfully. These cases at- 
tracted wide attention ; so that he was very widely known, and 
was certainly second to none. He used to send me his briefs 
when he won a, case in the United States Supreme Court." Mr. 



Princeton, Sixty-three 27 

Cox was the author of two books on the subject of trade-marks 
and of numerous articles in legal periodicals. 

In 1868 he married Fannie Cummins Hill, of Smyrna, Dela- 
ware, who with four children survive him. They are Rowland 
Cox, Jr., physician of New York, Archibald Cox, a lawyer 
practicing in New York, Mrs. Aubrey Herbert Weightman, of 
Philadelphia, whose marriage took place last fall, — and Robert 
Hill Cox. From 1875 till his death he resided in Plainfield, 
N. J., where as Trustee of the Public Library, Governor of the 
Public Hospital, as councilman and otherwise, he took part in 
local affairs. 

The day following the death of Mr. Rowland Cox, at the 
opening of the Circuit Court of the United States in New 
York City, proceedings were had in his memory, in the course 
of which, after eulogistic remarks by various members of the 
bar, the court, by his Honor Judge Lacombe, said : " It is 
eminently proper that upon this occasion an entry should be 
made in the minutes, recording the expressions of the bar in 
this matter, and the loss of the court at being deprived of the 
benefit, the delight, the charm, of the arguments which have 
been advanced to it by Mr. Cox. It is a great thing to be a 
man of ability, a man of industry, a man of indomitable perse- 
verance. Mr. Cox possessed all these attributes, and also an 
absolute integrity, upon which every Judge who heard him felt 
that he could rest with confidence. He pursued a career as 
counsellor, not only with the object of doing his duty by his 
clients, but with the very highest ideals of professional and 
commercial honor; and it is that characteristic, more than 
any other, which will commend his memory to us." 

Rowland Cox twice speaks of coming upon traces of his 
southern Classmates when campaigning in Mississippi. When 
on the staff of McPherson they were quartered at the planta- 
tion home of Benjamin Sherrod Ricks. The family were at. 
home at the time ; General Ricks' sister, Miss Fannie R. 
Jones, of Canton, Miss., writes to the Class Historian, " I re- 
member Captain Cox ; he was at my father's house during 
what we called ' Sherman's raid.' He made inquiries about 
my brother, stating that he was a Classmate at Princeton." 
Another occasion was a similar encounter with traces of two 
Classmates whose friends have been lately heard from very 



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pleasantly : — he wrote in 1866, " The Roach brothers were in 
the Rebel army. During the Vicksburg campaign our forces 
occupied a plantation owned by them," — the same, no doubt, 
now occupied by Nailer Roach, Esq., son of J. Wilkins Roach 
of our Princeton days. Bovell speaks of meeting Cox, and 
Nichols often conversed with him on suburban trains out and 
in from New York, discussing law points relating to patent 
cases, trade-marks and such like matters. A. B. and LL. B. 

RICHARD K. CROSS, after the deprecations we all feel 
even if we do not express, on the score of modesty and diffi- 
dence about writing our own obituaries, starts by saying, 
" Please write me down, Richard K., A. B. and A. M., Princeton, 
and LL. B., Law School of the University of Maryland. I was 
born in Baltimore, 21st July, 1842, my parents being Richard 
J. and Mary Jackson (Dickey) Cross. Prepared in the school 
in Baltimore, of Topping and Carey, an excellent school, — Mr. 
Carey, a Princeton man, and Professor Topping, of the Class of 
'30, had been Professor of Ancient Languages there. He was 
said to have been a great Greek scholar and teacher ; but he was 
too high Church and high strung for Dr. McLean, and they 
lost him. I had sufficient remnants of their knowledge to cause 
Dr. Giger to give me a good grade in Latin ; but the Class said 
at the time that it was because Gige' and I came from Mary- 
land ! 

My ancestors were Scotch-Irish people, Presbyterians in a 
long line ; my mother's father, Dr. Ebenezer Dickey, received 
his degree from Princeton, and we had at one time in our 
home six graduates of the College. 

I entered the Sophomore Class, and you know in the good 
old times almost anyone graduated. I studied law in the Uni- 
versity of Maryland Law School here, which largely educates 
the Maryland bar and has always been good. June 6, 1883, I 
married Miss Mary Caball Porter Breckinridge, the daughter 
of Judge Samuel Miller Breckinridge, — who was a Princeton 
girl by inheritance. Our oldest child, a boy, died ; — two girls 
about fourteen and fifteen years old go to the Bryn Mawr 
School, — not being eligible for Princeton. 

I have always enjoyed the ' out of doors,' and used to box 
with ' Teddy ' Van Dyke an hour a day in College, and with 



Princeton, Sixty-three 29 

him hunt frogs on Stony Brook. He has since then become 
a mighty hunter, as seen by the articles in the periodicals 
written by him, on ' Hunting Large Game,' and hunting of all 
kinds. A fondness for sport keeps one healthy and enables one 
to die at ' eighty years young,' as Dr. Holmes said of himself 
at that age. My memories of Princeton are very precious. I 
have seen but little of the Class since graduation, — a visit or 
two to Jackson at Chicago, one or two calls on Huey at his 
office in Philadelphia, and an occasional sight of one or another 
of our men, has been the extent of my knowledge. My in- 
terest in Princeton has never abated, — only last night we en- 
tertained the College Glee Club ; and we have one of the largest 
and most successful Alumni Associations outside of New 
York. I am practicing law, as you see by the legends above, — 
I have found enjoyment in it, and have had some interesting 
experiences and friends in the profession. Many of them have 
joined the large ' majority.' For many years I was very in- 
timately associated with an older Princeton man in the same 
office, Mr. John H. Thomas, of the Class of '44, I think, a 
great lawyer and lovely character ; — who often told me of his 
recognizing in the James (S.) Johnson, the well known char- 
acter about the college rooms and buildings, who died lately, 
a runaway slave, of the comic interest surrounding his trial 
which ensued, and of the purchase of his freedom by a Prince- 
ton lady. ' Jim ' was a slave in the family of Mr. S. Teackle 
Wallis, and Mr. Wallis went to Princeton after Jim, who per- 
sistently asserted that he had never seen him before — until 
out of the toils, when, in his stuttering voice he out with, 
' H-how d-do, Mar'se Teackle!' Mr. Wallis was for years 
the most brilliant man at our bar, and Mr. Thomas was his 
partner. They often spoke of ' Jim's ' trial ; — I wonder if they 
met him in the other world ! 

God bless you, my dear S., and all the good fellows we have 
known and loved ! I hope to meet you all before we all go, — 
though it does not seem probable from the past." 

As the Classmates will be anxious to learn how the mem- 
bers of our Class fared in the terrific fire at Baltimore on 
February 7, 1904, the following lately received from Cross is 
annexed. 

" The recent fire which destroyed nearly every Office Building 



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here, swept me clean, all my books and every scrap of paper, ex- 
cept what was fortunately gotten out of my safe before the fire 
reached it; as it was lost also. I think my Biography was on my 
desk, and I had started to change in only a few particulars your 
editing of my paper. Only the business part of the city was de- 
stroyed, so that our Classmates did not have to turn out in the 
night, and I do not hear that any of them suffered materially. But 
you would feel badly if you had lost your sermons and every book 
and scrap from which you extract them." 

Henley Smith writes that he had a large warehouse burned, 
upon which he was in prospect of collecting the insurance. 

A.B. and A.M. 

RENSSELAER WILLIAMS DAYTON writes of himself, 
— " I am credibly informed that I first drew breath, January 
9, 1843, m Middletown Point, now Matawan, New Jersey, the 
son of Alfred B. and Elizabeth R. Dayton. My childhood did 
not materially differ from that of boys in general. I re- 
ceived my early and preparatory education in the school of 
my own home, entering Princeton College in 1859, and gradu- 
ating in 1863. Directly thereafter I began the study of law, 
was admitted to practice in the State of New Jersey in No- 
vember, 1866, and became a pretty successful country prac- 
titioner. 

I regret to admit that I never married, and am naturally 
childless, — a fact which I often deplore. During the past 
few years my health has not been good, — ' There is a cross 
of heavy weight for every human life to bear,' — and I am 
bearing mine as patiently and philosophically as possible, hop- 
ing in the end for the recompense of the ' fadeless crown.' I 
have given you a brief outline which you can work up as 
may seem best." 

He speaks of a son of our Classmate Mordecai, at Keyport, 
near him. " A short time ago he presented me with a Class 
cane of 1863, which had belonged to his father, on which were 
cut the names of seventy-eight members of the Class, together 
with the title of the College, Nassau Hall, Class motto, etc." 
The Class Historian remembers the cane, and cut a lot of the 
names, — fellows making two or three jabs with the point of a 
knife, and turning the rest over to the Class Sculptor, — as he 
then was, for completion ! 



Princeton, Sixty-three 31 

The above modest letter reserves as much as it expresses. 
Dayton's father was a physician, and received honorary A. M. 
from Princeton while his son was in College. His mother 
was Elizabeth Ray, daughter of Ferdinand Van Derveer, of 
Somerville, N. J. He entered Freshman half-advanced. He 
studied law with Hon. Henry Stafford Little, at Matawan, and 
afterwards was for a great number of years in partnership 
with him successfully, under the firm name of Little and Day- 
ton. Although he filled no public office, he was in high repute 
and pursued a career worthy of his name and his associates ; 
and as a man is known by the company he keeps, the Class 
will be interested to know, that Mr. Little, — who was of the 
Class of 44, was Clerk in Chancery and President of the 
New Jersey Senate, — has won the regard and placed every 
Princeton man in his debt through the handsome benefactions 
he has made to the University, in the erection of the Stafford 
Little Halls, the elegant and most picturesque long range of 
dormitories overlooking the railway station, — edifices not to 
be excelled in suitableness to the eye and adaptation to their 
purpose by those of any institution of learning in the world. 

But this aside, the modest summary scarcely does justice 
to what our Classmate is and represents among our number ; 
and the object of this Book is not less to set this forth, than 
to give a bare record of facts and dates personal. Through 
his ancestors direct or collateral his name is interwoven with 
the geography, as well as the history of the great new empire 
of this western continent, — as will be found from these pages 
to be the case with ancestors and connections of no small 
number of our Classmates. There are on the Atlas of the 
United States places named after Fulton to the number of 
thirty-eight, after Franklin, ninety, counties as well as towns. 
These are the monument to men of wholly extraordinary fame. 
There are no less than twenty-seven Daytons in the States that 
have grown up since the Colonial period, all traceable to this 
family of respected men, — more than twice as many as were 
named after Caesar — (lasting enough to catch the eye of Clio), 
— bespeaking in the minds of the men who were building up 
the country a regard for the name of more than ordinarily 
substantial nature, corresponding to the characters of the men 
who gave it currency. They belonged to that superior class 



32 Fortieth-year Book 

of public men whose distinction is the result less of their own 
impulse towards the achieving of position, than to the admira- 
tion and confidence of those who appreciated their qualities. 

These men were scholars, as the long list of Dayton names 
on our General Catalogue shows. Our Classmate is descended 
from Elias Dayton, who fought as an officer in the Colonial 
and Revolutionary wars, and who was a trusted friend of 
Washington, — who was the first President of the society of 
the Cincinnati, holding that exceptionally honorable office till 
his death in 1807. His hands were in the work of the founding 
of the Republic. His son Jonathan, (Princeton, 1776), Repre- 
sentative in Congress, Speaker of the House and United States 
Senator, had been a member of the convention that framed 
the constitution, — also a builder and founder of what we are. 

William Lewis Dayton, who graduated in 1825, in the Class 
with Zabriskie's father, — uncle of our Classmate, — was a Sen- 
ator from New Jersey, and was United States Minister at 
Paris during the delicate period of the Civil War, when the 
designs of Louis Napoleon upon Mexico were causing deep 
resentment, and produced a situation demanding diplomacy 
of the utmost care. Another William L. Dayton, his cousin, 
was Minister to The Hague under Arthur's administration, and 
also Judge of the New Jersey Court of Errors and Appeals. 

Mr. Dayton, though without family of his immediate own, 
is surrounded by a circle of strong and growing younger 
people, professional and Princeton men and lovely interesting 
women, with whom he is on the most affectionate terms, and 
by whom he is held as dear as if they were his own children. 
He has been sojourning of late at Asbury Park. 

A.B. and A.M. 

EDWIN EUGENE DENNIS, of Stockton, Worcester 
county, on the eastern shore of Maryland, entered the Class 
as Freshman, and left Princeton at the outbreak of the Civil 
W r ar, at the end of the Sophomore year. He was a planter 
and lived a retired life engaged in the affairs of his farm, and 
also in the extensive oyster industry in the waters of Chesa- 
peake Bay. He never married, and died at Moorhead City, 
N. C, June 30, 1899. 

Mr. Dennis was of excellent family, some of whose members 



Princeton, Sixty-three 33 

have occupied positions of influence and importance in the 
State and elsewhere, and a number of his connections have 
been graduates of Princeton. 

JAMES SHEPARD DENNIS. Born at Newark, New Jer- 
sey, December 15th, 1842, son of Alfred Lewis and Eliza 
(Shepard) Dennis. His ancestry in the maternal line of 
descent is traced back through eight generations to Governor 
William Bradford of the " Mayflower ■" and Plymouth colony ; 
on his father's side to English Quakers who came over in the 
early colonial times, and settled in Eastern Pennsylvania, sub- 
sequently moving to Northern New Jersey. Among paternal 
ancestors also were some who took part in the War of the 
Revolution. 

He was prepared for College at the Alger Institute, Corn- 
wall, Connecticut, and by private tutors at Newark, New 
Jersey, entering Freshman year at Princeton College in 1859. 
He took the entire course of four years and was graduated 
in 1863. In the autumn of 1863 he entered Harvard Law 
School, Cambridge, Massachusetts, for one year of study 
before matriculating as a student for the ministry at Princeton 
Theological Seminary. In the autumn of 1864 he entered the 
Seminary at Princeton, remaining three years until graduation 
in 1867. During the Senior year in the Seminary convictions 
of duty, resulting from a devout and conscientious study of 
foreign missions, led him to choose this sphere of ministerial 
service and the question was decided before graduation. 

He was licensed to preach by the Presbytery of Newark in 
1866, and ordained as an evangelist by the same in 1868, with 
a view to service in Syria under appointment of the American 
Board of Missions. This was before the transfer of the Syria 
mission to the care of the Presbyterian Board in 1870. For 
eighteen months previous to his departure for the east he 
served as stated supply of the High Street Presbyterian 
Church, Newark, sailing for Syria in October, 1868. 

His first residence in Syria was the ancient city of Sidon, 
where he remained two years and a half studying the Arabic 
language. He then returned to the United States and was 
married, June 26, 1872, to Miss Mary E. Pinneo, of Newark, 
both sailing a few weeks after for Syria. 



34 Fortieth-year Book 

Soon after his return he removed, in 1873, to Beirut under 
appointment of the mission to take charge of the theological 
instruction of native students for the ministry. He served in 
the capacity of Principal and Professor of Systematic Theology 
in the Seminary at Beirut for eighteen years, and during that 
period in addition to ordinary routine duties, he prepared 
several text books in the Arabic language for the use of theo- 
logical students. One volume was upon the Evidences of 
Christianity, another upon the Science of Biblical Interpreta- 
tion, and a third was a treatise upon Systematic Theology. 
The latter was in two volumes of about 500 pages each, being 
an eclectic compilation from the best English sources, chiefly 
the works of Dr. Charles Hodge and his son Dr. A. A. Hodge. 
Although essentially Calvinisticj the doctrinal outlines of the 
book were shaped to conform with the liberal rather than the 
ultra conservative construction of historic Calvinism. All of 
these text books are now used in several theological schools 
in the Levant, including Egypt, where the Arabic language 
is the medium of instruction. 

The death of his father and duties resulting from this event 
led to his return to the United States in 1891. Since then the 
claims of service here have seemed imperative, and the way 
has not opened for a renewal of missionary life in Syria. As 
soon as it became evident that the stay in this country might 
be prolonged, he resigned his official connection with the 
Board of Missions, but at the request of the Mission and with 
the approval of the board, an unsalaried and informal position 
was given him as an honorary member of the Syria Mission, 
and the way was thus left open for his return if that becomes 
practicable. 

In the meanwhile he has devoted himself to serving the 
cause of foreign missions in this country as opportunity offered. 
At different times he has temporarily aided in the editorial 
and secretarial departments of the board, being invited at 
one period, when a regular vacancy was to be filled, to be- 
come a permanent secretary. Duty, however, seemed to 
point to other lines of work, and time and strength for sev- 
eral years have been given chiefly to the preparation of mis- 
sionary literature. Upon the establishment of the Students' 
Lectureship on Missions at Princeton Seminary he was in- 



Princeton, Sixty-three 35 

vited to deliver the first course, in 1893, and was again asked 
to fill the same appointment in 1896, the students themselves 
requesting that the sociological aspects and results of missions 
be the theme treated. These two appointments issued in the 
publication in 1893 of " Foreign Missions after a Century," and 
in 1897 of the first volume of an extended work on " Chris- 
tian Missions and Social Progress ; " an additional volume has 
since been issued in 1899, and the third is in course of prepara- 
tion, with the prospect of publication in 1904. 

In the spring of 1900, as Chairman of the Committee on 
Statistics, he presented an elaborate report to the Ecumenical 
Conference on Foreign Missions held in New York City. The 
report in detail was subsequently published at the author's 
expense in a volume entitled " Centennial Survey of Foreign 
Missions." The purpose of this " Survey " was to give a 
summary view of the progress of foreign missions at the close 
of the nineteenth century. It was issued in 1902. 

In connection with the Parliament of Religions held in Chi- 
cago in 1893, he delivered an address on " The Message of 
Christianity to Other Religions," and has spoken on behalf of 
missions in numerous conventions, Churches and ecclesiastical 
assemblies, besides contributing many articles to magazines, 
reviews and papers. 

He received the degree of Doctor of Divinity from Princeton 
University in 1879. He is a member of the " Society of May- 
flower Descendants," the " Society of Colonial Wars," the 
" Sons of the American Revolution. Dr. Dennis is also a member 
of the Princeton and Quill Clubs of New York City, a Fellow of 
the American Geographical Society, a member of the American 
Academy of Political and Social Science, and of the Minis- 
terial circles of Chi Alpha and Sigma Chi of New York City. 

An only son, Alfred Lewis Pinneo Dennis, was graduated 
from Princeton University in 1896, received from Columbia 
University the degree of Ph.D., and is now Professor of 
History and Political Science at Bowdoin College, Maine. 
Present address, 17 East 37th street, New York City. 

A. B. and A. M. 

JOHN RICHMOND DEWING is one of those Classmates 
about whom all inquiries for new information have been fruit- 



36 Fortieth-year Book 

less. He was the brother of Rev. Chas. S. Dewing, Prince- 
ton '65, and Seminary '68, who was for years very prominent, 
and a Secretary, in our Home Mission work in New England 
and California, — but who died a few years ago ; at which time 
his son, Lewis A. Dewing, was at San Jose. All efforts to 
reach the relatives have been futile, and we have little beyond 
the facts, — some of them conflicting, — of the " Record." 

He was born at Warren, Pa., the son of Edward Coburn 
and Amelia (Coburn) Dewing; entered Freshman, but mar- 
ried, and left at the end of the Sophomore year, June, 1861. He 
is affirmed to have " entered Rutgers College, graduating in 
1862; Alleghany Seminary in the fall, and was at Princeton Semi- 
inary one year, where he graduated." The Princeton Semi- 
nary Catalogue, however, credits him with only the middle 
year of the Class that entered in the fall of 1863, — giving his 
death, " July, 1864," the " Record " putting it in " the fall of 
the same year." 

He entered the service of the Christian Commission, (and 
perhaps previously of the Sanitary), and was in chief charge 
of the Camp of the Commission at the army hospitals, City 
Point, Va., at the time when the present writer was, for a few 
weeks, there in the same work, which the latter left on account 
of prostrating sickness, apparently not many weeks before 
Dewing succumbed to typhoid ; — his death occurring at his 
home at Warren, as the "Record " states, later on in 1864. 

WYCOFF E. DEY departed this life in the month of July, 
1903, just as the work on this Book was undertaken. No com- 
munication has been established with his immediate family. 
He was in the Produce Commission business in New York 
City, connected with the extensive concern of Hezekiah 
W T arne, in Duane and Reade streets, in the crowded vicinity 
of the great centre of this traffic at Washington Market. Dey 
street, not far from here, carries a reminiscence of his family 
name as connected with the early days of the city, in asso- 
ciation with other thoroughfares all about whose names speak 
of men and families, — steady-going Dutch, enterprising Eng- 
lish and Scotch, and earnest Huguenots, who laid the founda- 
tions of New York's amazing prosperity. He was from the 
neighborhood in Monmouth county, New Jersey, which was 



Princeton, Sixty-three 37 

settled by the Holland Dutch very early ; " Englishtown," a 
place hard by tells of a time when Dutch was almost ex- 
clusively spoken, and an English family was rare. The rich 
soil is now almost wholly devoted to the raising of perishable 
supplies for the millions of the great cities. No doubt our 
Classmate's ancestors were in the battle that hot June day 
when base Lee sought to ruin our cause, and Washington 
rebuked him in words as fiery as the day. One of the name, 
Mr. Franklin Dey, is Secretary of the State Board of Agricul- 
ture at Trenton, and others are honorably prominent in the 
locality. 

Mr. Dey was born at Manalapan. His father was Peter 
Johnston Dey, an Elder in the Presbyterian Church at Cran- 
bury prior to the building of the Manalapan Church, and his 
sister married a Perrine of the former place. He prepared at 
Lawrenceville, and was with us only in the Freshman year. 
I am indebted for assistance in tracing this Classmate to Mr. 
Peter Forman, of Englishtown, Mr. David Baird, of Baird, and 
Mr. F. Dey. It was months afterward that information of his 
demise reached me, through his niece, Mrs. H. W. Herbert, of 
Englishtown. 

JOHN HAYNIE DONE. Born in Snow Hill, Worcester 
county, Maryland, June 22, 1843. His father was General 
Superintendent of the Illinois Central Railroad Co., at Chicago. 
His mother was a daughter of John Leeds Kerr, United States 
Senator from the eastern shore of Maryland. On his ancestral 
roll appear an officer of the Continental army, a chartered 
member of the Society of the Cincinnati, and a Judge of the 
Appellate Court of Maryland. The record hath note of sev- 
eral worthies whose restless activity in minding other people's 
affairs, or whose shortsighted sympathy with the " under dog 
in the fight " brought them into prominence in their day. Lord 
Baltimore has 'em in his Privy Council and they followed 
Claiburne in his rebellion against the Lord Proprietary. The 
Cavalier, the Puritan, the Courtier and the cattle lifter of the 
Scottish Marshes, all are there, embalmed in the family history. 
But we will close the book right here ; it is not polite to ex- 
amine too closely, for there is a certain " Hempen reminder " of 
the suddenness of death, — a ghastly Memento mori, — often 



38 Fortieth-year Book 

found on the best-pruned and regulated family tree, an em- 
barrassing topic to some. 



Ubi sunt qui ante nos 

In mundo fuere? 
Transeas ad superos, 
Obeas ad inferos, 
Vis si vos videre ! 



After his father's death in 1856, his mother brought the 
family to Princeton. The two eldest boys, John and Josiah, 
were placed in the " Princeton Select Classical School," taught 
by Mr. John C. Schenck, and in a room in the rear of the 
Methodist Church on Main street, they were inducted into the 
Humanities. How thorough was the foundation can only be 
surmised from the fact they managed to escape being plucked 
when they went up for their exams. It is hard to get the rights 
of things sometimes, and it is often better to be born lucky 
than rich : — the boys entered College together and were true 
and loyal comrades to the last. How it happened the videttes 
of Whig Hall succeeded in capturing him, and not the pickets 
of Clio, I do not know ; perhaps the Maryland delegation was 
chiefly of that side of the " Back Campus," and like most 
southerners they went with their State. I well remember our 
dear mother's trepidation the evening of their initiation, and 
her solicitude next morning as to the complete inventory of 
their persons and clothing. 

What was John Done's standing in his Class, I cannot say. He 
was bright and fairly industrious, but I doubt he sought the 
bubble reputation of a First Honor man. His natural leaning 
was to Belles Lettres, and with his quick perception and musi- 
cal ear he soon acquired an easy and flowing style. His letters 
and papers evidence this in a marked degree. He enjoyed 
College life, was popular with his associates and formed many 
close attachments. He entered enthusiastically into all the 
fun going, and while I don't know his record in re " Horn- 
sprees," it was, perhaps, no better than it should have been. 
He was a great society man and mighty fond of the girls, — 
God bless 'em ! His sweethearts were legion, for he discovered 
a new charm in each divinity ; 



Princeton, Sixty-three 39 

" And when he was far from the lips that he loved, 
He was bound to make love to the lips that were near." 

— He simply couldn't help it. His Classmates, — now grave 
and reverend seignoirs, — but whose pulses then bounded with 
the " frolic wine " of life, will doubtless recall the goddesses 
whose shrines fairly reeked with his incense ; — the full moon 
called him, and the " lascivious pleasing of the lute." With 
a choice coterie of fellow lunatics, " oft in the stilly night " 
would he rouse decent folk to profane objurgation by insisting, 
" She sleeps, my lady sleeps ! " 

A long and severe illness in his Sophomore year compelled 
him to lay books aside for a while, and when he resumed study 
it was with the Class of '64. The following year he entered 
the race for Junior Orator, and I recall his elation when re- 
porting his success to his mother next morning; — she was 
always to him Guide, Philosopher and Friend. There is no 
telling how many volumes he ransacked for a subject for his 
speech, — something that hadn't been threshed out an hundred 
times before by an antecedent Demosthenes. I reckon he 
began to hate the whole thing ere he found the sentiment he 
intended to exalt with his eloquence. 

That was a happy winter for him, — and his last, that of 
1862-3. Things had gone his way in the Class, the season was 
unusually gay, and he entered into the festivities with char- 
acteristic vim and delight. He was an expert skater and spent 
many hours of recreation on Stony Brook and Van Deventer's 
pond. From some imprudence perhaps, he caught a severe 
cold on the ice ; pneumonia supervened, and terminated fatally 
forty-eight hours after seizure. He was conscious to the last 
and expired peacefully, testifying to his faith in his Redeemer. 
He died February 28, 1863. 

He was but a youth, — only twenty years old, — but in ma- 
turity a man, every inch of his six feet one. With a percep- 
tion and judgment beyond any experience he could possibly 
have had, he counselled and advised his mother in her per- 
plexities. The younger ones felt his watchful eye and his ready 
encouragement stimulated their progress. He looked forward 
impatiently to the career awaiting him, and was girded for 
the conflict when stricken down in the tents. 



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That was forty years ago, but how vividly the scenes re- 
appear ! So startlingly real are they that as I write I can 
almost feel the touch of a vanished hand and hear a voice long 
stilled. 

(The above sketch, together with the one which follows, are 
from the pen of Mr. William Leeds Doane, of Birmingham, Ala- 
bama, younger brother of the subjects.) 

JOSIAH BAILEY DONE, M. D., brother of John H., born 
at Snow Hill, Maryland, 1844. Entered the Class of 1863 
with his brother, but withdrew from College before gradu- 
ating. More fiery and headstrong than John, many of the 
restraints of discipline appeared to him small and trivial, and 
he was at no pains to conceal his impatience or to refrain 
from ridiculing the peculiarities of his teachers. Whatever 
plots against the peace and dignity of " Old John," or others 
of reproachful name, or whoever was the special butt at the 
moment, I rather think found in him a gleeful conspirator. 
And once black-listed, he was doubtless held responsible for 
many pranks of which he was innocent, but for which he 
secretly envied the perpetrator. 

The war wrought tremendous changes at Princeton. A 
large proportion of the students were from the Southern 
States. Most of them returned home and joined the Con- 
federate Army. Of course where lines were so sharply drawn, 
there was no doubt to which side the sympathies of the two 
brothers were given. Doubtless many imprudences were 
committed, many foolish things said and done. The Coun- 
try was in the throes of a mighty conflict that aroused the 
fire and partizanship of the entire nation. I remember the 
excitement when a student was dragged from his bed and 
put under the College pump, one night ; and how every 
Southern lad, feeling he was marked and suspected, became 
a walking arsenal and carried himself after the manner of 
him who beareth a chip upon his shoulder. 

There was something about the " Knights of the Golden 
Circle." Passwords and cyphers, etc., were current, and our 
dear mother was in constant terror lest her boys should be 
led into some compromising act. 



Princeton, Sixty-three 41 

All this just suited Joe Done, and while he was under the 
strict injunction of his mother, it was more than his nature 
could stand not to be an intensely interested spectator when 
the very air was charged with political excitement. During 
his Junior year, while his brother was on sick leave, his 
relations with the Faculty became " strained," to say the 
least, and his mother finally consented to his taking his 
name off the College books, believing it did him more harm 
than good to remain where he had lost his interest. He 
immediately — without losing a day — commenced the study 
of medicine with Dr. Archibald Alexander and entered Belle- 
vue College, N. Y., that Fall. The change from the academic 
shades of Old Nassau to the pulsing life of New York, was 
a liberal education of itself, although on different lines, and 
he found in the new field scope for his every faculty. With 
an easy and self-possessed manner, a ready address and air 
of culture and refinement, he soon had entree to a distin- 
guished circle. He also discovered that to win in New York 
one must be master of his trade, and that could only be 
attained by intense application. I remember he told me for 
weeks he read thirteen hours a day. Visiting home on an 
occasional holiday, we could but notice the rapid growth and 
development of his mind and the maturity of his conversation. 

On graduating he became Assistant Surgeon at Bellevue 
Hospital, and afterwards full surgeon in charge. During his 
incumbency he was thrown with the leading men in his pro- 
fession, who soon recognized his abilities and frequently called 
him into consultation. So creditable was his record that on 
returning to Princeton for a vacation, Dr. McLean, ignoring 
his past cloudy record, offered him his A. B. 

He served two years in the Hospital, gathering experience 
of incalculable benefit to him. He then accepted the offer of 
a partnership from Dr. Lewis H. Sayre, of New York, under 
the firm name of Drs. Done & Sayre. The Association at 
once gave him place and standing, as Dr. Sayre stood at the 
head of his profession as a surgeon. The partnership lasted 
nearly a year when he determined to open an office of his 
own. In this he was successful from the start, but his health 
failing from overwork he secured the appointment of Surgeon 
in the Pacific Mail Steamship Company, and sailed for China 



42 Fortieth-year Booh 

in their new Steamer, " City of New York," then on her 
maiden voyage. He remained with the company upon the 
China station until, feeling his health sufficiently restored, 
he resigned and returned to private practice at Yokohama, 
Japan. There he met and married Miss Carrie Baker, of New 
York, in 1869. He lived in Yokohama three years after his 
marriage and built up a large practice. He died of blood 
poisoning November 4, 1872, in his twenty-eighth year, leav- 
ing a widow but no children. 

He was a good man ; of a genial and loving disposition, 
thoughtful and considerate of others. His manners were quiet 
and reserved, but carried a charm that invited confidence, 
and his friendships were dear and lasting. He was a close 
student of his profession, and on general topics was the best 
informed man of his age I ever knew. An affectionate son, 
a devoted husband, a kind and thoughtful brother, he died 
lamented by a host of friends who mourn his untimely end. 

Hon. A. B. 1865. 
FRANCIS DU BOIS, M D., was born June 15, 1842, in 
New York City. His father was born in Switzerland and 
came to this country when a young man. He was for many 
years engaged in business in New York as an importer. His 
mother was also of Swiss descent. These antecedents have 
made it quite congenial for him to find in European coun- 
tries his home for a great part of his time during the years 
that have passed. 

He entered our Class as a Sophomore and graduated with 
us in 1863, and his versatile and witty characteristics were 
much enjoyed. After leaving Princeton, Du Bois took the 
course in Medicine and Surgery at the College of Physicians 
in Fourteenth street, New York. He was never actively 
engaged, however, in the practice of his profession, although 
he has always in measure kept up interest in medical science. 
He never married. His circumstances obviated the necessity 
of depending on his profession for a livelihood, and enabled 
him to suit his inclinations in travel abroad. After completing 
his studies at the Medical College he spent a considerable 
number of years residing temporarily in France, Italy, Ger- 
many, Spain, Austria, etc., and for several years enjoyed a 
sojourn in Japan. For the last ten years he has become more 



Princeton, Sixty-three 43 

settled, and has had his residence continuously in Paris, where 
his address is 34, Rue Tronchet, except summer variations at 
the baths and watering places. Last summer he was at 
Divonne-les-Bains, near Geneva, within sight of Mont Blanc. 
He has been around the globe several times, and may dispute 
with our most widely-journeying members the palm as Class 
Traveller. 

Dr. Du Bois's only near relatives now living are a nephew 
and niece, children of a deceased brother, who live in New 
York. His nephew, Francis E. Du Bois, M. D., is a graduate 
of Princeton, of the Class of 1901. He has taken the Medical 
course at the College of Physicians and Surgeons, and has an 
appointment to Roosevelt Hospital. 

The Class Historian is indebted for some items to Mr. 
Theodore F. Jackson, 84 Broadway, Brooklyn, who is Mr. 
Du Bois's agent in New York. Our Classmate writes the 
Class Historian : " The name Cherry Valley brought back to 
my memory many happy days spent there as the guest of the 
Campbells, our College cotemporaries. Your name called up 
to my mind the face of an honest man and a sincere one. 
(This is where the Class Historian gets his " taffy," — from 
Paris ; — he has to give a lot !) As far as I am concerned, I 
have very little to say. I have been pretty much everywhere, 
I have seen pretty much everything, and have settled down 
in Paris, the Paradise of an old man who has the physical 
strength to stand the strain, the moral strength to say No 
when necessary, and the Philosophy of Mark Tapley, — 
Panglory ! " >-ws^ » 

Perhaps our Classmate's experience is like that of a friend 
of the writer's, who spent some years in the gay capital in 
the study of music, — who, when inquired of by a lady, What 
he thought of Paris? replied that, Well, Paris was not what 
it ought to be ! Dr. Du Bois should not content himself with an 
attitude of abstention. He should do a little missionary work, 
and try and make Paris what it ought to be. A. B. and A. M. 

DANIEL REQUA FOSTER, Clergyman, was born in 
Patterson, in Putnam county, N. Y., September 22, 1838, son 
of Edmund and Eliza (Requa) Foster. In the paternal line 
he descends from Elder William Brewster and Stephen Hop- 



44 Fortieth-year Book 

kins, of the Mayflower, and from William Foster, who landed 
in Boston in 1634; — in the maternal line from the Huguenot 
Requas, who came to this country in 1690 and settled in New 
Rochelle, N. Y. He descends also, through his mother, from 
the Lees of Kent and the Browne family of Rye, England, — 
one of whom, Sir Stephen Browne, was Lord Mayor, of Lon- 
don, in the reign of Richard II. 

Mr. Foster prepared for College in the Military Academy 
at Peekskill. He entered with us in the Freshman year, was 
graduated with us, and received the M. A. degree in course, 
three years later. He was Junior Orator from the American 
Whig Society and Marshall of our Class Day exercises. 
Owing to the erection of the Chancellor Green Library in 1897, 
he had our Class elm replanted in front of Marquand Chapel, 
where it has flourished, as does the Class ; and under its 
shadow the great processions of the University are now 
formed. For prominence, beauty and vigor the tree we 
planted is an emblem of the Class it represents on that 
Campus. Here on the day when the bronze Historical Tablet 
was affixed to Nassau Hall, October 21, 1896, the Class assem- 
bled by its representatives, half of whom were Sons of the 
Revolution, the Committee being Stryker, Huey and Foster, — 
and the latter broke forth in poetic strain to this effect: 

Boys of old Sixty-three, we bid you welcome 
To the Halls of Old Nassau ! 

Hail to fond memories 

Of other days and deeds! 

Peace to the dust of fallen comrades. 

As the old Roll is called 

We see their shadowy forms — 

They are not, yet they are. 

Our tears for them and theirs, 

Warm welcome for the living! 

How changed these scenes — 

The buildings and the College green, — 

We see their ampler width, 

We know their growing fame. 

We hear the greater name, 

The " Princeton University." 

We prize them all ; 

We claim them our inheritance 

And feel the impulse and the opulence. 
Prophetic gleams of what our manhood should become. 



Princeton, Sixty-three 45 

As future years roll on we should grow strong, 
With wider reach for truth, and brighter hope in God. 

He graduated in Theology at Princeton in 1866. During 
one vacation he served, with Hayt, in the Christian Com- 
mission at Memphis and Little Rock. Upon his graduation 
he accepted a call to the First Presbyterian Church of Phelps, 
N. Y., and while there married Anna Evans, daughter of 
Jonathan Steward, of Trenton, N. J. In 1870 he took the 
pastorate at Pennington, in Which his labors were greatly 
blessed ; — seventy persons united with the Church at one time 
and at another forty-one, the Church was rebuilt, and he also 
organized and built a Church at Hopewell on the borders of 
the Parish. 

In 1886 the Bethany Presbyterian Church at Trenton, near 
by, was organized, and the same evening called Rev. Mr. 
Foster to be their pastor. The story of the origin of this 
Church in the prayers and impulses of two devoted women 
is very affecting, and its growth was really phenomenal. 
Foster had the great joy of receiving in thirteen years eleven 
hundred and thirty-one members, more than half new con- 
verts. Here, as in all his pastorates, he was his own evangel- 
ist; but these excessive labors greatly impaired his health. 
He had two extensive tours in Europe, but resigned in Jan- 
uary, 1900. The occasion was signalized by a service at which 
Rev. James Kennedy remarked that thirteen years before 
Bethany had no sheltering roof nor any enrolled membership, 
— merely a band of praying women. Now it had a property 
valued at $40,000, and it had a membership of over 700, over- 
topping that of any Church in Trenton. 

Mr. Foster still resides on Greenwood avenue, Trenton, 
N. J., and is deeply interested in the Bethany Church. On 
the seventeenth anniversary, last November, the Church, 
being without a pastor, had the opportunity to invite him 
to preside, when he preached a sermon of review and grati- 
tude, reciting the astonishing history of the enterprise. He i9 
otherwise active in evangelistic and philanthropic affairs, a 
member of the Board of Managers of the State Charities 
Association, and President of the New Jersey Children's 
Home. 



46 Fortieth-year Book 

Foster has just sent in his Application to the Society of 
Mayflower Descendants ; he is a life-member of the New Jersey 
Historical Society, of the Sons of the Revolution and of the 
Huguenot Society of America ; and he is eligible also to 
membership in the Society of Colonial Governors, Colonial 
Wars, and of Founders and Patriots; — thereby establishing 
his title to membership in a Class that surely cannot be 
excelled for historic and patriotic ancestry. A. B. and A. M. 

JOHN AIKEN GAMMON, Captain in the Confederate 
Army, is a man whom it took a Diogenes lantern to find after 
the, to us, oblivion of all these years ; yet, being found, he 
responds, " All my remembrances of Princeton are of the 
happiest," and laments, " I was at none of the Reunions." 
In reply to the queries of the Schedule sent, he gives this 
amazing statement of his ancestry : " All of my great grand- 
fathers were soldiers in the Revolution, and ten of my great- 
great-uncles, five of whom were Charter members of the Cin- 
cinnati, and three of them in the United States Senate," — fit 
for any Peerage ! 

The son of William G. and Adelaide Gammon, he was born 
at Jonesboro, Tennessee, in the old war country of the Chero- 
kees, January 2, 1844. Prepared at Martin Academy and at 
Emory and Henry College, Virginia ; entered Princeton in the 
Fall of i860, and left April 20, 1861, to take part in the war. 
" Entered Confederate Army in 1861, and served nearly four 
years, including four months at Prison on Johnson's Island, 
after the end of the war. Enlisted as Private, was made 
Second Lieutenant, and promoted to Captain, September 20, 
1862. Studied Law, but never practiced : engaged most of 
the time in clothing business at Rome, Georgia, but had to 
quit in 1899." "Married to Rosalind Burns, June 18, 1873; 
have had six children, five boys and one girl. Have two grand- 
children ; my eldest son married into a family whose custom 
it is to have more girls ! Have sought nor held any public 
place ; ' The private station is the post of honor.' " 

As to " Events, travels, etc.," this veteran rejoins, " I have 
been shot quite numerously, and carry some very uncom- 
fortable lead about me constantly." Apropos of " Present 
Pursuit and Address," " I am pursuing only the GRAVE, — 



Princeton, Sixty-three 47 

Rome, Ga." He has " met none of the Classmates, except 
Inman, Bovell and Greenwood. Bovell is living near Wash- 
ington College, Washington county, Tenn. ; I met Green- 
wood on the street in Richmond in 1864; his then address 
was Augusta, Ga." 

Every word of the graphic notes of this relict of the cruel 
war is interesting, and I have given them mostly in his own 
language. I append a letter which I am sure must take all 
our hearts. Understanding that he had gone over to the 
majority, it was thought to be good fortune to find the address 
of his widow. 



My Dear Swinnerton: 



Rome, Ga., August 25, 1903. 



In the Summer of 1864, when Grant was trying to break 
into Petersburg, Bushrod Johnson's Brigade, to which I 
belonged, had become so depleted that a Captain commanded 
the Brigade, and I overhead a soldier say to the officer in 
command of his Company, " Lieutenant, there are only ten 
of us left : — How long will it be till we are all killed? " The 
Lieutenant replied, " I don't know; and I don't care a cuss; 
A man was in big luck who was killed at the first battle of 
Manassas ! " 

I had not the luck to die then, or up to the present time ; 
so your reference to me as " the late Mr. G." is a little pre- 
vious ; and I am prompt to reply to your letter addressed 
to Mrs. G. 

I had intended writing something of a letter, but am so 
nervous that I write with difficulty. Hoping that your lot 
in life has been happier than my own, and that at the great 
Reunion in the Valhalla beyond the Grave we may meet and 
live forever in the bliss denied all here, I am, 

Sincerely yours, 
John Aiken Gammon. 

Few achievements of the Class Historian have given him 
more gratification than to succeed in finding this Classmate 
and bringing him into touch once more with his old College 
comrades. 



48 Fortieth-year Book 

HENRY R. GREENWOOD, of Columbus, Georgia, was 
in College from August, 1859, until the end of the Sophomore 
year, and roomed with his fellow Georgian, T. P. Langley, 
of Darien, at 22 East. He was, in 1866, reported killed in the 
Confederate service, by our Classmate Hall, who had then 
recently been in the South. Application to the Georgia State 
authorities yielded nothing, as likewise careful enquiries 
through Gammon, Washburn and many others. There is no 
trace of his friends. He is about the only Southern Class- 
mate of whom persistent research has not yielded at least 
some little definite information. 

At the last moment these pages were withheld from the 
press to follow a new clue furnished by Mrs. W. H. Locke, 
a copy of the Enquirer-Sun of Columbus, containing lists 
of 652 Confederate dead lying in Linwood Cemetery there. 
Among them, in the " Jews' Lot," appears a " Jacob Green- 
wood ; " but questioning of the pains-taking authorities has 
as yet revealed nothing more to the point. Among the numer- 
ous unnamed graves may be that of our Classmate ; — it may 
be his body on which was found some one of the mementos, — 
" Locket," " Isbell," tenderly preserved, the only trace of 
life's interests remaining, — or he may have been left on the 
battle-field in the fierce hurry of advance or retreat. 

RICHARD TOWNLEY HAINES writes to the Class His- 
torian from Thomasville, N. C, as follows : After a period of 
more than forty years, it certainly was a pleasant surprise to 
hear from you to-day. Judging from the extracts sent me, 
death must have been busy with the Class of '63. There seem 
to be but few of us old, grey-headed fellows left. You ask for 
some personal information. Well — I haven't set the world on 
fire, nor have I blurred the landscape with black clouds. I 
have never been sent to Congress nor to prison ; I have not 
rolled in riches, nor begged bread from door to door. Born 
in Eighth street, New York City, October 7, 1841, my father, 
Richard Townley Haines, was a member of the old dry goods 
firm of Halstead, Haines & Company, of New York. 

He was well known for the active part he took in religious, 
educational and charitable work. Connected for many years 
with the American Tract, Bible and Colonisation societies, he 



Princeton, Sixty-three 49 

was one of the founders of the Union Theological Seminary, 
and President of its Board of Trustees, and a Trustee also of 
Union College. He was an Elder in the Presbyterian Church, 
and many Churches east and west owe their start to him ; and 
his advice was sought and followed in more cases than I have 
space to enumerate. 

My mother was a daughter of S. V. S. Wilder, a well-known 
banker and philanthropist seventy-five years ago, one of the 
founders and First Vice-Presidents of the American Bible 
Society. His wife, my grandmother, Electa Barrell Wilder, 
was descended from Joseph Barrell, of Boston, a well-known 
and enterprising ship-owner, who at his own expense fitted 
out and sent to the Pacific Ocean, on a voyage of discovery, 
two vessels, the " Lady Gray," Captain Gray, and the " Colum- 
bia," Captain Kendricks. They were the first to discover and 
name the " Columbia " river, and while they were up this 
great stream about a hundred miles, trading with the natives 
for furs, etc., they bought from the Indian chiefs an immense 
body of land, of which the original Indian " deed " was placed 
on file in the State Department at Washington. 

While they were up the river, on a foggy day the English 
Captain, Vancouver, and his fleet sailed by the mouth of the 
Columbia without seeing it, and going north took possession 
of Vancouver's Island. This right of discovery, supported by 
the Indian deed and other facts, was largely instrumental in 
establishing the right of the United States to the territory 
now known as the States of Oregon and Washington. 

For many years my mother was Corresponding Secretary 
of the Woman's Executive Committee of Home Missions of 
the Presbyterian Church. She visited Alaska, in the days 
before it had become a place of frequent summer excursion, 
to aid in establishing missionary work there, a pioneer like 
her ancestor's ships in the same region ; and the most north- 
erly Mission station, I think, on the Continent is named for 
her, " Haines," Alaska. She was through her life active in 
every good work and a woman of unusual executive abilities. 

Rev. Dr. David H. Pierson, of Elizabeth, undertook my early 
training, from ABC until the time in 1859, 

" When I first came on the Campus 
A Freshman green as grass." 



50 Fortieth-year Booh 

I " rode the goat " in Clio Hall, and I was number five when 
the votes were counted for Junior Orators, — so near and yet 
so far. Except in mathematics, — of which I knew little and 
never did know much, — I managed to " get through," neither 
first nor last in our class, — nearer last, I think. That year I 
went to Chicago and studied law in the office of Scammon, 
McCagg & Fuller, and in 1864 took a special course in real 
estate law at Columbia College Law School, New York. In 
1865 I was admitted to the Bar of Illinois and Kansas, and I 
practiced for about a year at Leavenworth. In 1866 I returned 
east and married Mary Augusta Price, and the next year was 
admitted to the New York Bar. In 1870 we lost our only 
child, an infant boy. 

Finding that it paid better to buy, sell and lease city prop- 
erty, search titles, draw deeds, etc., than it did to try cases in 
court, I gradually relinquished law practice. Some ten years 
ago, in order to try and save what little health I had left, I 
came South, and we have ever since been wandering through 
the uplands of North Carolina.. 

I have never taken any active part in politics, and have held 
no office except that of Notary Public, in New York, Kansas 
and North Carolina. I am, or have been, a member of the 
American Geographical Society, American Institute of Chris- 
tian Philosophy, the Charity Organization Society of New York 
City, and I am one of the founders of the Chinese Sunday School 
Union, and am its Vice-President. I have written no books 
or pamphlets, but I have from time to time added to the labors 
of more than one editor of magazine or newspaper, by caus- 
ing them to read, — and sometimes print, — short articles or 
sketches, of little more than local or temporary interest and 
importance. I am now calmly waiting to have served on me the 
" Summons " which sooner or later comes to us all. And, as 
towards life's furtherest shore my feeble feet approach, I lift 
my heart in silent prayer and ask that in His own good time 
my age-dimmed eyes may see the glories of that other land, 
where dwell the saved and God. 

This, with kindest regards to you and my other Classmates, 
and with nothing remaining in my memory but pleasant recol- 
lections of four years spent with you and them at Princeton 
College. Thomasville, Davidson County, N. C, November 
16, 1903. A. B. and A. M. 



Princeton, Sixty-three 51 

JOHN NEWTON FREEMAN is one of the most ad- 
mired pulpit orators in the Presbyterian Church in this 
country, and has filled several important pastorates in that 
body. He was born of missionary parents at Allahabad on 
the Ganges, in the Northwest Provinces of India, July 17, 
1844, having one only sister, a most interesting and beautiful 
girl, whom illness early made a deaf mute. The father, Rev. 
John Edgar Freeman, A. M. (born in New York City in 1809), 
was a graduate of Princeton of the Class of 1835, and after 
completing the Seminary course there entered upon his mis- 
sionary work, in which he labored from 1839 till 1857. The 
mother of the children succumbed to the climate while they 
were yet very young. In those days there were none of the 
cool, or at least salubrious, retreats, like Woodstock, in the 
Himalayan uplands, for the shelter of the little ones of the 
devoted workers in the sweltering plains. There was no alter- 
native but to send them home to the charge of friends such 
as were glad to care for them, in order to protect them from 
the inevitably depraving influences of heathen life, then almost 
unmitigated, as well as from the climate, and for the purposes 
of education. And so the orphan boy, with his scarcely more 
than baby sister, was brought across the seas by the widowed 
father, who kissed them farewell and went back to his work. 
John was placed in the care of a Mr. John Labar, at Hacketts- 
town, in the New Jersey hills, where he enjoyed the advan- 
tages of a Christian home and laid up a stock of experiences, 
both humorous and pathetic, enough to have afforded, in the 
hands of Dickens, material for a handsome Mansard story to 
his celebrated Yorkshire edifice of culture. Here he got the 
elements of Latin and Greek with exceptional thoroughness 
while still very young, and laid the foundation of a proficiency 
which always marked him as a student. 

The Rev. Mr. Freeman married again, and with his wife 
was overtaken by the fearful rage of the Mutiny of 1857. 
They were among the missionaries and others who were 
treacherously enticed into the boats on the river and deliber- 
ately shot down. The beautiful Memorial Chapel at Cawn- 
pore rises over the well into which their poor bodies were 
thrown. 

Changing to Mr. Pingry's school at Elizabeth for com- 



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pleting his preparation, our Classmate came to us in the 
Sophomore year, sharing the room of the present Class His- 
torian, at " Home," 32 East, — not one stone of which, alas ! 
is now left upon another. He was one of our most correct 
scholars, one of our most graceful speakers, one of our most 
elegant writers, and he was a personality much delighted in. 
He received the Physical Oration at our graduation. Mr. 
Freeman was a proficient in the sign-language and took a 
position as an instructor in the New York Institution for the 
Deaf Mutes at Washington Heights, where his sister had been 
an inmate and a teacher, — which he held for two years. He 
then attended the Seminary course at Princeton, and was 
called to the First Presbyterian Church, Peekskill on the 
Hudson. He was ordained May 17, 1868, and served in that 
field till 1876. He was next pastor at Lockport, N. Y., for 
some years, till 1881, when he was called to Immanuel Church, 
Milwaukee, where he preached till 1889. The Centre Church 
at Denver drew him across the plains, and he spent eight years 
at the foot of the Rockies. In 1897 he went to Calvary Church, 
Cleveland, remaining till 1891, when he resigned. 

Our College made Freeman a Doctor of Divinity in 1891, 
and at the Alumni dinner, at Commencement last June, he 
spoke for Sixty Three before the vast assemblage in the great 
new Gymnasium hall, in an address which demonstrated the 
acoustic excellence of the immense building to entire satis- 
faction, — a question which had been left in some degree of 
painful doubt by speakers who had preceded him. He is now 
without a pastoral charge, and, as a member of the Presbytery 
of Cleveland, is devoting himself to work as an Evangelist 
and occasional supply. 

Dr. Freeman married while at Peekskill Miss Kate Ben- 
edict, of New York, whose daughter, Kate Benedict, is 
the wife of Prof. Jesse B. Carter, Ph. D., of Princeton 
University 

He married, secondly, in Chicago, Miss Ohe, by whom he 
has several children. 

His son, Halstead Gurnee Freeman, graduated at the old 
University with the Class of 1903, keeping up the excellent 
traditions of the two generations before him. 

A. B. and A. M. 



Princeton, Sixty-three 53 

HENRY RODNEY HALL is the honored pastor of the 
Presbyterian Church at Columbus, in Burlington county, 
N. J., where he has labored for thirty-five years, from which 
he once resigned to accept a call elsewhere, but could not 
obtain release from the attachment of his people. 

He was born March 17, 1843, at Lewes, in Delaware, the 
port of the great Breakwater and costly government harbor 
at the mouth of Delaware bay, — settled by Swedes and Finns, 
as quaint and old as any place in the country, but taking on 
new life with its fine modern possibilities. His father was 
Henry Fisher Hall, a physician in large practice, Ruling Elder, 
and Surgeon in the army of 1812, and a strong Unionist in the 
Civil war, although a slaveholder. The family has been set- 
tled in Lewes time out of mind, and is said by tradition to 
have come from Plymouth settlement. There have been five 
generations of Halls who were physicians in the old town and 
they, the Fishers and the Rodneys were all patriots. The 
last, the mother's name, is English, in the line of Admiral 
Rodney, the family record being extant to the time of Will- 
iam the Conqueror; and Caesar Rodney, who was of the 
same line, was a " Signer." The paternal grandmother was 
a daughter of Major Henry Fisher, a Revolutionary patriot, 
who spent his fortune for Independence; and Colonel David 
Hall was commander of " The Lelaware Line " in Washing- 
ton's army. Doctor David Hall now resides in the old home. 

He fitted at Snow Hill Academy, on the Eastern Shore, 
" the worst that any one could have and expect to enter Soph." 
Hall says : " I always think of the College of our day with 
veneration and full gratitude. The faculty, though small, does 
not suffer in the comparison with that of the University. 
Don't fail to emphasize the religious tone of the old College ; 
recall the Sophomore Recitation-room prayer meetings, the 
frequent revivals, the almost entire classes of Church mem- 
bers. But were not those fierce times, the years of the Civil 
war! — hardly favorable for study, yet times to make men 
think. College days were happy days to me, and my Class- 
mates first class ! My room, 22 East, is no more ; it and the 
old Chapel levelled to make room for the splendid new library. 

My father called me into the ministry, under God. This he 
told me was his wish when I was about fifteen, and, though I 



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was not a Church member, I did not rebel, though I felt no 
fitness for it. You recall my diffidence, — my topic, on the 
burlesque program, was " How Rarely Hall is heard from ! " 
Yet here I am, a minister, pastor in this place, my only charge 
since 1868. My field of labor is an old Quaker community. 
The ' Friends ' knew where the richest soil was, but work 
was needful here, for their meeting had nearly died out, and 
people had little more than the name of Christian. So it has 
always been a mission field in true sense ; growth has not 
been great because of slow material and because of the 
removal of the young to the cities, — Philadelphia is twenty- 
five miles and Trenton twelve. I have been the means of 
building a new Church and minister's house, and of collecting 
a little endowment of $7,000. I have always had people of 
the highest culture to preach to. Two Churches, Columbus 
and Plattsburg, six miles apart, have composed my parish, 
and after thirty-five years I do not know that I have an 
enemy in my Churches. For several years I have been the 
oldest member of Monmouth Presbytery, — its Treasurer for 
fifteen years and Chairman of its Committee on Temperance. 
I have been member of General Assembly once and have often 
declined the nomination. My travels have been confined to 
this country, in every part of it. My health was never robust ; 
in 1898 I was obliged to absent myself a whole year, and for 
two years after that keep my seat in preaching. But I am now 
regaining strength and am with no known organic trouble. 

I have been twice married ; — first, in 1869, to Henrietta A. 
Stout, daughter of Henry Stout, Esq., of Dover, Del. ; second, 
in 1875, to Mary E. Goodell, daughter of Dr. George Goodell, 
of my Plattsburg congregation. Each lived but a short time, 
and my two children died shortly after birth. 

To you, from the standpoint of a happy husband and father, 
and may-be grandfather, my life must look pretty blue ; but 
on the contrary, I have enjoyed life, and do still. I love my 
work and my people, and have all the good I deserve, and 
far more; — have my pleasure in other people's families, to 
which I have always had cordial welcome. I love children 
and young people, and have some success in winning them ; 
I love music and have always been able to contribute my share, 
and all the parts of my work are increasingly pleasant to me. 



Princeton, Sixty-three 55 

Now if you come to Princeton, and have occasion to spend 
some time in its vicinity, my place is within twenty miles, 
of easy access, and I would esteem it high privilege to enter- 
tain you. I live in my own comfortable home, have plenty 
of room and a good housekeeper.. And this to all my beloved 
Classmates." He adds, "Would it be anything to you if I 
should say that, according to the advice of good old President 
John, we do our morning Bible reading in the Latin and Greek 
Testaments, I have done so since 1863, — making a record 
of nearly a hundred times in the forty years." And Foster 
says that Hall never has repeated a sermon. A. B. and A. M. 

MONTGOMERY HAMILTON writes of himself: I was 
born in Fort Wayne, Indiana, about five hundred feet from 
where I now live, and my children were born in the same 
house. There is an old claim, still heard in Scotland and 
North Ireland, that we Hamiltons are descendants of Woden, 
or Odin, the Scandinavian War God. On my mother's side 
my great-grandfather and his three brothers served in the 
Revolutionary war. These facts, and facts they must be, 
may account for my youthful military ardor. 

I was not well prepared for College ; Indiana's schools 
were not then what they have since become, — about the best 
in the country. I think I ought not to have been admitted to 
the Sophomore Class, yet I was graded sixth at the first 
quarterly examination. In September, 1862, I enlisted in the 
army, but was graduated with the Class, as were all of us 
who entered the army in our Senior year. I could write 
plenty of reminiscences of College days, especially of the 
beginning of the Civil war; as was natural to a Westerner, 
I took more kindly at first to the Southerners than to the 
Easterners, and was rather of their set. Among the Faculty, 
I was something of a favorite with Guyot, Mcllvaine and 
Dufneld, but decidedly not with McLean or Atwater. I had 
the general Sophomore's fancy that Cameron did not like me, 
but I believe he dealt fairly with me. Of course Alexander 
did not know anyone. 

With Rowland Cox and John M. Williams I enlisted in the 
Fifteenth Pennsylvania Cavalry, often called " The Anderson 
Troop " and " Buell's Body Guard." Humphries, '64, went 



56 Fortieth-year Booh 

with us. I served for some months as a private soldier, and 
afterwards as Aide-de-Camp on the staff of General Joseph 
J. Reynolds, commanding the Fourth Division of the Four- 
teenth Corps, General Thomas's, — the only corps in either 
army that never was whipped. I served about a year, was 
invalided, and went to Europe. There I matriculated at the 
University of Jena in Germany, but did not stay long enough 
to secure a degree. When I returned to America I entered 
the Harvard Law School, — Jackson, Howard Reeder and 
Zabriskie being there with me, — and I was admitted to the Bar, 
but never practiced law. During several years I was in busi- 
ness, of more than one sort. I have done some work in 
politics, but, while succeeding where I worked for others, 
I never managed to " get there " myself. 

As to my writings, my first published work was an article 
in the " Nassau Lit.," under the editorship of John De Witt, 
of '61, — now eminent for learning and orthodoxy, — the article 
was entitled "Heroines." I have no copy. My other writ- 
ings are not worth mentioning beside this. 

The world has treated me kindly. I have children, — my 
full share toward averting " race-suicide," but I have no grand- 
children ; and, perhaps fortunately, no sons- or daughters-in- 
law. About my travels, — I went to Europe with my father 
in 1857, — made the usual tour with some additions, and again, 
after my army life, as stated above, I spent a year abroad, 
getting as far as Asia. I went over again in 1866, and this 
time I passed between the contending German armies in the 
Austro-Prussian war, — coming within a few miles of one of 
their battles, — in order to get to Dresden, where I was to be 
married. On my wedding trip I had to pass between these 
armies again ; two days after my marriage the hotel in which 
I lodged was occupied, on the same night, by the commander 
of the " Bundes Truppen " and by the Prussian commander, 
not at the same time, however. Otherwise I have not wan- 
dered for any length of time from my birthplace. 

Happy the man whose thoughts and cares 

His own paternal acres bound, 
Content to spend his passing years 

In his own ground. 

A. B. 



Princeton, Sixty-three 57 

THOMAS O'HANLON (who graduated as Thomas Han- 
Ion, having since reverted to the ancient form of the name), 
is a distinguished scholar and educator of the Methodist 
Episcopal Church, brother of Rev. John O'Hanlon, also a 
distinguished minister of that denomination. He was born 
in New York City, March 23, 1832, being the oldest member 
of the Class. He was already a minister of the Methodist 
Church before entering College and while serving the Milltown 
Church near New Brunswick, prepared himself at the Rut- 
gers Grammar School. He joined the Sophomore Class at 
Rutgers College in August, i860, and completed that year, 
when he was appointed to the pastorate of the Church at 
Princeton, and came among us as a Junior, residing in Will- 
iam street. He is the son of John O'Hanlon and Catharine 
Landers, who were Roman Catholics, born in the south of 
Ireland of families of large estates there, the latter as well in 
the City and State of New York. Numerous members of the 
O'Hanlon family have for a hundred years been distinguished 
for eminence in the medical and teaching professions, one of 
them now a member of the Board of Health in New York. 
One was a distinguished Romish priest of Rathkiel parish, 
in the County of Limerick. Both his parents were teachers 
in Monmouth County, N. J., and till he was twenty years old 
he worked on a farm and as a carpenter. Converted in 1847, 
he passed up from exhorter and local preacher. He gradu- 
ated with credit, took his A. M. in course, and was made D. D. 
by Dickinson College as early as 1869, and LL. D. by 
Washington College, Tennessee, in 1893. His abilities were 
promptly recognized and he received the appointment to the 
important State Street Church, Trenton, and already in 1867 
was engaged in his life work as President of Pennington Sem- 
inary, an institution for both sexes of importance and useful- 
ness under Methodist auspices. Our Classmate, Judge Hen- 
drickson,was his co-worker in this and other services connected 
with the Methodist denomination and its educational affairs. 

He married Miss Hannah M. Maps, of Long Branch, N. J., 
March 4, 1856. The children are: Laura J., born in 1857; 
John Russell, 1858; Myra Augusta, i860; Catharine, 1863; 
Mary, 1865; Thomas, 1868; William R., 1869; Martha W., 
1876; Joseph Thornly, 1877. 



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Mr. Hanlon's course in College and intercourse with his 
Classmates was worthy of all praise. He identified himself 
with the student life and shared the undergraduates' interests 
and point of view perfectly, while never in the least compro- 
mising his position as a mature family man or lowering the 
dignity of his ministerial standing. He enjoyed the respect 
and confidence of every man in the Class. A mere catalogue 
of his successful labors would exceed the space allotted here. 
During fifty-one years of public service, eighteen of which 
were spent in the pastorate of some nine Churches and as 
Presiding Elder with care of fifty Churches, he was blessed 
with revivals in which over two thousand were converted ; 
and he helped in benevolent efforts in which more than a 
million dollars were collected ; — and during thirty-three years 
as President of Pennington, the property of which increased 
in value from $30,000 to $240,000, he taught 6,000 pupils, of 
whom 600 have served in the ministry and in missionary 
fields in many lands. His Bible Class at Ocean Grove, 
organized in 1877, increased from twenty students to 2,000 
in twenty years ; and he has been widely in request as 
writer, lecturer and preacher, on literary and political as well 
as religious themes. He visited Europe in 1878 and 1885. 
On account of his wife's health, as well as of needed respite, 
he retired last year for well-earned rest at Los Angeles, where 
he resides at 1023 South Burlington avenue. 

He writes : " Say somewhere in the sketch, Dear Swinner- 
ton, that I have an undying love for dear old Princeton and 
for the glorious Class of '63. Noble fellows were they all, — 
they were so kind to me ! I entered Princeton handicapped ; 
it was a serious question, even if my health held out, whether 
I could successfully fill at the same time the two positions, — 
that of pastor of a Church within a stone's throw of the Col- 
lege and that of a student of the University. But by the 
very great kindness of all the students, and of all the Faculty, 
— and as well of all my parishioners, — under the blessing of 
Almighty God, my two years at Princeton were the two hap- 
piest years of my life. And how much those two years have 
helped me to do the great work committed to my hands these 
last forty years ! I could never have done the work without 
Princeton, — dear old Princeton ! 



Princeton, Sixty-three 59 

My work now, Dear Swinnerton, is almost done ; the 
shadows from the West are lengthening fast, — the evening 
twilight of life's long day is almost here. But Bethlehem's 
star to me is becoming more and more radiant, — indeed it is 
flooding the very heavens of my western sky with that light 
that ' never shone on land or sea.' My richest love to all the 
Fellows of the Class of '63, — and to those of that immortal 
Class who have passed the boundaries of time my heart says, 
with warmest affection, Peace, peace, till we meet again ! " 

A. B. and A.M. 

SAMUEL AUGUSTUS HAYT, born at Fishkill-on-the 
Hudson, June 13, 1841, is, on his father's side, of French 
Huguenot and English extraction. His grandmother was 
a Delavan and his father a cousin of Edward C. Delavan, 
the eminent reformer, of Albany. On his mother's side the 
ancestry is Connecticut Puritan, — " My forbears fought and 
bled in the Revolution." He is the son of Samuel A. and 
Lavinia (Nicholls) Hayt, and he agrees that there may be a 
suspicion of relationship with our Classmate Nichols, whose 
ancestors came to Newark from Milford and Branford, Conn., 
in 1667. 

Poughkeepsie Academy and " Williston " prepared him for 
College, he entered with us and graduated with us, — a Junior 
Orator from Clio Hall, and Orator at the planting of the elm 
we placed on ground near the old Chapel, now covered by the 
great new Library. He attended the Reunion of 1883, which, 
he says, was " very quiet." One year was spent at Princeton 
Seminary and one at Union Seminary, N. Y., and he took a 
year in theology at Berlin University, first devoting a space 
to the study of German at Jena. Having grown up in the 
Reformed Dutch Church, whose natural home is along the 
Hudson, — which differs little from the Presbyterian, however, 
on his return he was ordained by the Classis of Albany of 
that body, in 1867. He received the degree of S. T. D. from 
the University of New York in 1887. 

Dr. Hayt's pastoral charges have been mostly in Presby- 
terian Churches; — the Second Church at Belvidere, N. J., for 
two years; at Ballston Spa, from 1870 to 1876; Stone street, 
Watertown, N. Y., from 1876 to 1894, whence he went to the 



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Mayflower Congregational Church, Indianapolis, which he 
served a couple of years, up to his retirement from the minis- 
terial work, when he lived in New York City for a time. In 
November last he accepted the position of Librarian of the 
Flower Memorial Library at Watertown, entering upon his 
work in January. This is a magnificent marble structure, 
built by the daughter of the late Governor Roswell P. Flower 
as a memorial to her father, adequately endowed and providing 
congenial occupation for our Classmate's coming days. 

His marriage took place in 1869, and he has three children. 
With D. R. Foster, Hayt spent a summer in the service of 
the Christian Commission at Memphis and Little Rock. He 
was President for a number of years of the Society for Pre- 
vention of Cruelty to Animals of Jefferson county, of which 
Watertown is county seat. But his life-work has been prin- 
cipally devoted to the exacting and useful labors of his several 
parishes. He has written much, though little for publication. 
European travel and study have taken him over and back 
some seven or eight times, and he mentions that he has found 
the greatest delight in pedestrian tours in Switzerland and 
Tyrol, — where we should be glad to have been with him ! 

" The world," says our friend, characteristically, " has been 
fine ! " Yet he ends up a trifle away from his optimism, with 
the aphoristic touch, " Enjoying the past, enduring the present, 
and anticipating the future." May these pages deepen the joy 
in the past, help to endure whatever of hardship there may be 
in the present, and go some way to confirm the anticipation 
of what of good and glory there may yet be to come. 

A. B. and A. M. 

CHARLES ELVIN HENDRICKSON, Associate Jus- 
tice of the Supreme Court of New Jersey, is a jurist of 
high repute and greatly honored in his State. He was born, 
January 8, 1843, at the village of New Egypt, in that part of 
Monmouth County which is now the County of Ocean. He 
prepared at the Academy there, and in September, i860, 
entered the Sophomore Class at Union College, continuing 
in Schenectady, however, but one term. With wisdom beyond 
his years, he joined us at Princeton and graduated with us, 
being little above twenty. He carried off an A Medal in gold 



Princeton, Sixty-three 61 

from Clio Hall, for which the Class Historian always owed 
him a grudge, but which he thinks a Mascot, or Talisman of 
success, and never suffers to leave his person. It means A 
Number One ; but in any other hands would mean a no one. 

For a year he conducted a classical school at Pemberton, 
but soon turned to the Law, studying first with Abraham 
Browning, at Camden, and afterwards with Garrett S. Can- 
non, at Bordentown. He was admitted to the New Jersey 
Bar in 1866 as Attorney, and as Counsellor in 1869, and settled 
at Mount Holly, where he has since resided. In politics Mr. 
Hendrickson was a Democrat, and he was elected to the 
Assembly from the Third District of his County as early as 
1867. But his legal abilities and probity of character were too 
much valued to be left to the chances of mere political office- 
holding. In March, 1870, he was appointed by Governor 
Randolph Prosecutor of the Pleas for Burlington County, and 
was reappointed successively by Governors Beadle, McClellan 
and Abbett, serving twenty years in that responsible post, 
from which he retired voluntarily in March, 1890. 

He has had a very successful and honorable judicial career, 
which began with his appointment by Governor Griggs to 
the Bench of the Court of Errors and Appeals, for a term of 
six years, March 26, 1896. He had served as Special Judge 
of that Court for five years, when he was, in February, 1901, 
appointed by Governor Voorhees a Justice of the Supreme 
Court of the State, — the position he now fills. The appoint- 
ment was confirmed by the Senate, and was for the term of 
seven years. 

Our Classmate has always given his decided countenance 
in support of the cause of religion. He has been prominently 
useful in the service and in the counsels of his Church, repre- 
senting the New Jersey Methodist Episcopal Conference as 
one of the two Lay Delegates to the general body in Baltimore, 
in 1876, when he was appointed by the Board of Bishops one 
of the Committee to revise the Hymnal of the Church, — a 
work completed and presented at Cleveland the following year. 
He has further served the New Jersey Conference as its Trus- 
tee of Dickinson College, and likewise of Pennington Sem- 
inary, so long under the successful management of our Class- 
mate, Dr. O'Hanlon, the two Princeton associates in that work 



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acting as congenial co-laborers in the cause of education. He 
was for a number of years President of the Trustees of that 
institution. He was also a Lay Delegate to the Methodist 
Ecumenical Conference, held in Washington, in 1891, having 
been designated as one of the representatives from New Jersey. 

Judge Hendrickson is of Dutch descent. His earliest ances- 
tor in this country, on his father's side, was Hendrick Hen- 
dricks, who emigrated from Holland to what is now Long 
Island. In 1692 he came thence to New Jersey, with his two 
sons, Daniel and Wilhelm, and settled in the present Mon- 
mouth County. Within the next generation the name was 
slightly changed, from Hendricks to Hendrickson. His mother 
was of Welsh descent. 

Mr. Hendrickson married, in 1872, Sarah Wood Nixon, of 
Red Bank, N. J. He has three sons and one daughter. Two 
of his sons, Charles E. Hendrickson, Jr., and George D. Hen- 
drickson, graduated at Princeton, and are now members of the 
New Jersey Bar. The third son, James A. Hendrickson, 
entered this year as a Freshman in our University, in the 
Classical Department. His daughter, Marie Uitendale Hen- 
drickson, is married to William J. Baird, of Philadelphia, who 
graduated at Princeton in the Class of '95. 

The Class take unalloyed satisfaction in the success of this 
comrade of long years ago. They are proud of his honors ; 
and when they remember his hearty laugh, his sound heart, 
and his pure Christian principles, it is their wish, should it be 
for them ever to be in " trouble," to have no other to be their 
judge than he. A. B. and A. M. 

HENRI SEYMOUR HOLDEN, for two years at the head 
of our Class in scholarship, private and Serjeant of U. S. Vol- 
unteers in the war for the Union, was born at Hingham, Mass., 
August 31, 1841. He was descended in the direct line from 
John Holden, Captain in the Continental army and an original 
member of the Order of the Cincinnati ; thence back to Jus- 
tinian Holden, who came over from Ipswich, England, in 1632. 

In 1855 the family removed to Newark, N. J., where Henri, 
as stated in the Class " Record " of 1866-7, " with no definite 
purpose in view engaged in commercial pursuits, and for three 
years almost entirely neglected study." However, he had 



Princeton, Sixty-three 63 

begun preparation for College at Derby Academy, and his 
tastes now asserting themselves, he' took a year of study under 
Rev. J. F. Pingry, at Elizabeth, and was easily able to enter 
Sophomore in August, i860. He received a Scholarship for 
high standing in his entrance examinations, and at once took 
first place among us, maintaining this position undisputed as 
long as he continued at Princeton. While in College a nature 
congenially inclined to serious devotion came to open religious 
expression, and he formed the purpose of preaching. We 
stood a little in awe of this tranquil, mental athlete ; however, 
the present writer, during the religious interest that prevailed, 
took occasion to seek a conversation with Holden, who, of 
course, received him with cordiality, not only, but spoke freely 
of his past experience in religious matters, — among the rest, 
curiously, although not as yet a man of professed piety, on 
beings appealed to for guidance by an acquaintance in spiritual 
trouble, he had pointed out to him earnestly and carefully the 
path to take for his soul's relief. We used to wonder at the 
way he reeled off dry Bible chapters in Professor Atwater's 
Sunday afternoon recitations ; at Holden's funeral Rev. Mr. 
Haley, his pastor, stated that the sufferer, unable to read or to 
endure being read to, had spoken of the deep satisfaction he 
had found in the long passages he had made permanently his 
own in preparing for those exercises, and could read off from 
the record of his memory. He had an easy ability in hard 
work, a mature mind, and great command of his intellectual 
powers, with a cheery dignity and a quietly genial manner. 
He never lounged. His well-kept, massy flaxen hair, worn 
long as the style of many then was, so wavy yet always in 
control, — the writer well recalls the impression always made 
upon his imagination by the strong Greek face on its pillared 
neck, clothed low, — the wide and upright shoulders, and the 
large, statuesque figure, which made him think of ancient 
coins, of or the Spartan heroes at Thermopylae, dressing their 
locks before they went in to lay down their lives. He might 
be one of them ! 

The prospects of his scholarly ambition held him strongly, 
but the convictions of patriotism prevailed, and at the begin- 
ning of the Senior year, September, 1862, he sacrificed his 
expectations of brilliant distinction and accepted the musket 



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of a private soldier in the Fourteenth New Jersey Volunteers. 
With him as comrade in this new work went McLeod Thomp- 
son, a sturdy, plain man of solid mathematical gifts ; and at 
the same time three others, the Faculty having promised them 
their diplomas, Montgomery Hamilton, Rowland Cox and 
John M. Williams, who entered the Fifteenth Pennsylvania 
Cavalry, then called " General Buell's Body Guard." 

The promise of the Faculty seems to have been forgotten, 
and it was not till 1876 that, in response to a letter from 
Dr. Edgar Holden, his brother, the Trustees resolved that 
Henri Holden's name be inserted in the Roll of his Class, 
where it appears as Bachelor of Arts "(post obit)," and has 
the asterisk to indicate his death, which is placed in 1862. 

This, however, is a mistake ; the " Record " states that 
he was present at our final Commencement in 1863, and we 
remember him in his army blue. He served nine months, 
was promoted to corporal and to serjeant at Fredericksburg 
(where Jackson so distinguished himself), but the exposure 
and hardships of that repulse broke his health, and he was 
sent home on sick leave, to die shortly after of pneumonia, 
November 10, 1863. What a country and what an army, that 
could afford First Honor Collegians and high grade mathema- 
tical scholars for the private soldiers in its ranks ! 

Our Classmate, Huey, in his tribute printed in 1867, regret- 
fully says : " We, who had mapped out for him such a brilliant 
future, were forced to bow to the wisdom of the Almighty, 
and believe that Holden's mission on earth had been com- 
pleted." Dr. Holden, of Newark, sends to the Class Historian 
an account of certain occurrences which seem to prove that 
an interrupted career may in the strangest way be resumed 
and completed by a fellow-being. He writes : " One of the 
most striking instances of the apparent transference of duties 
and of personal character to another is given herewith by 
Henri Holden's only and devoted brother, whose affection 
for him while living has not been lessened by the many years 
that have elapsed since his death." 

How the acquaintance began he does not remember, but 
thinks while Henri was a student at Princeton it was, that a 

young man living in Massachusetts, William M , formed 

for him one of those mysterious attachments not uncommon 



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among girls but rare between men, and which for unselfish, 
whole-souled devotion could not be surpassed. This young 
man, whose home was at a distance, had few advantages of 
education. There was nothing of that social community of 
interests which usually draws youths together ; but his natur- 
ally refined instincts, and a certain nobility of soul, gave a 
touch to the devotion of his attachment that was nothing less 
than pathetic. Neither of the two were professors of religion 
as yet, but with Henri's conversion and determination to study 

for the ministry M was deeply impressed. However, he 

gave no sign of conviction on his own part ; but when Henri 
was taken with pneumonia he came on at once from Boston, 
giving up his work, and devoted his whole time to waiting 
on, watching with and nursing the sufferer. During the few 
weeks of illness, which terminated fatally, Henri dwelt much 
on his disappointment in being unable to do any work for the 
Master and on his failure to give himself earlier to the cause 
he had espoused. So far as was remarked at the time, this 
had no effect on the friend ; — who stayed until the funeral, 
and disappeared. 

Little was heard from him and at rare intervals. Some 
time after, when the war was not yet over, Dr. Holden, being 

a Surgeon in the Navy, heard that M had shipped before 

the mast on a brig bound for Australia; again, after a few 
years, that he was driver of a stage-coach from Sydney, or 
Melbourne, out to the mines, and that he was preaching on 
Sundays to the miners. Again an interval, and it was learned 
that he had taken orders in the Church of England ; but all 
this time no word came from him directly. Suddenly he 
appeared in Newark and at Dr. Holden's. He was a repre- 
sentative of the Young Men's Christian Association of Aus- 
tralia, with carte blanche to visit the principal centres of 
the body. 

Dr. Holden thinks nothing was said of the dead friend on 
this occasion ; — " When Henri was mentioned I saw the sudden 
tears come to his eyes, and no more was said." Again a long 
interval, when one day the Secretary of the Newark Associa- 
tion, Mr. Cozzens, brought a letter from Australia, asking 
for Dr. Holden's address, if he were still living, and enclosing 
a draft on the Bank of England, to be used to adorn the grave 



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in Mt. Pleasant Cemetery on the Anniversary of Henri's 
death. 

Finally, concludes Dr. Holden, " Last year, 1902, forty years 
after that grave was closed, there came a gray-headed man, 
Henri's mysterious friend, with wife and daughter, to my 
house. At first there was the same reticence ; one day, with- 
out informing any one, we found he visited the Cemetery and 
bestrewed the grave with flowers. But before leaving for 
Australia he told me frankly the story of his unabated love 
for my brother, and that ever since his death he had regarded 
himself simply as his representative in this world ; that all 
he had done or hoped to do was as a favored and a chosen one 
standing in the place of that friend, — to whom he had prom- 
ised this consecration, because he had died before his work 
on earth was fairly begun. 

Mr. M is Rector of one of the largest Churches in Aus- 
tralia, a leader in all philanthropic work, president of different 
benevolent organizations, and especially of the Young Men's 
Christian Association. Devoted to the cause of Christ and 
humanity, he is still young in his enthusiasm and faithful to 
his promise and his love." 

Though long for these pages, the Class Historian thinks its 
singular interest justifies the insertion of the foregoing recital. 

A. B. (post obit.) 

JOHN CALVIN HOLMES, M. D., was born where he now 
resides, at Cranbury, Middlesex county, N. J., January 11, 
1842. The parental names were John Rathbone and Isabella 
Amelia (McChesney) Holmes, of English descent on the one 
side and Scotch on the other. 

He prepared at home by a private tutor, — " result — just able 
to enter the Freshman Class." He was in College till the 
beginning of the Junior year, October, 1861, when he left to 
enter the Union army; but he was rejected, owing to physical 
disability. He then began the study of medicine, and gradu- 
ated in 1864 at the College of Physicians and Surgeons, New 
York. Forthwith he " put out his shingle " in his native town. 

Still feeling inclined for army life, he received a commission 
as Assistant Surgeon of U. S. Volunteers, and was ordered to 
report to General Foster, at Newbern, but as the war came to 
a conclusion in April immediately following, he saw no field 



Princeton, Sixty-three 67 

service. Nevertheless, on account of his " war record," the 
Trustees of Princeton, who had given him the degree of A. M. 
on his graduating in Medicine, now placed his name with the 
Class of 1863. 

Returning to the paths of peace, he practiced medicine for 
twenty-six years, with a fair amount of success ; — in the early 
part of which time, March 7, 1871, he married Miss Mary 
Louise Powell. But during the " blizzard " of 1888 he was 
compelled to be out on horseback for three days upon pro- 
fessional duty, and as a result of this exposure became very 
deaf, and he was obliged to relinquish the work from January, 
1890. He turned his hand to the manufacture of perfumery, 
in Philadelphia, for two years, when his health quite failed 
him, and he returned to Cranbury. 

Dr. Holmes, in 1894, published " Substance and Shadow," 
a copy of which is honored with a place in the Alumni Alcove 
of the John C. Green Library. He has since finished another 
volume, " Ideals," and is now at work upon a Colonial novel, 
" A Jersey Blue." 

Dr. Holmes has no children. He is a member of the local 
School Board and lectures before the advanced class of the 
High School on Physiology and on Mythology. He is a mem- 
ber of the New Jersey State Medical Society, and is a Past 
Master of the Masonic order. " Writing at night and during 
the day looking after a very little farm, — if I did not have 
the consciousness of knowing that I perhaps did some good 
in the years from 1864 to 1890, I should consider my life a 
sad failure." 

He adds this note respecting the decennial years of the 
Class: "I was at Princeton at the Commencement of 1883, 
but there was no Reunion of '63, as only two members of our 
Class were present. I do not think our Class ever succeeded 
in having a Reunion from 1866 till 1893." 

Our first Decennial, 1873, had scant observance, as appears 
from the circumstance that Class Secretary Huey issued, a 
year afterward, March 20, 1874, a circular deploring that only 
" A few — very few — did meet at Princeton, and enjoy an hour 
or two of pleasant social intercourse," at the previous Com- 
mencement, when " our Decennial year should have been 



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appropriately celebrated." He adds : " Before parting we 
resolved upon an effort to have a Class meeting in 1874," to 
which the circular was a call, — with what result does not 
appear. Dr. Holmes disposes of the second Decennial, 1883, 
— only two were present, himself- and Dr. Beach Jones. 
However, Hayt writes that he was there, and Miller. In 1893 
the present Class Historian was in Princeton for a couple of 
days. It must have been on Wednesday, that he fell in with 
Frank Reeder, sitting on a bench in front of North College, 
in melancholy mood as if deploring himself as the last rose 
of summer. No other soul that we knew had he seen. But 
the day before, Tuesday, a pleasing group had been gathered 
on the Campus, who indulged in happy revival of old mem- 
ories and guyed each other gayly about who was most and! 
who was least changed. They comprised, besides the writer, 
Chris. Bergen, J. S. Dennis, Huey, Hendrickson, Miller, Sex- 
ton, Smythe and Vredenburg. 

There was no formal banquet, but we were " called to 
order" — such as it was, and did a little something; and then 
adjourned to the Alumni Dinner in University Hall, where 
Huey spoke for us in his eloquent manner. These all sepa- 
rated on the afternoon trains, and four of them were per- 
mitted to see each other again at the Reunion of ten years later. 

On that occasion, Commencement season, 1903, there were 
present at Lunch, in " the northeast office room, University 
Hall," Saturday, June 6th., and as graybeards in the Procession 
to the Ball Game, — Hendrickson, Holmes, Freeman, Patton, 
Pumyea, Frank Reeder, Sexton, Strickler, Stryker, Swinner- 
ton, Temple, Van Cleve and Vredenburg. It was a jolly, 
delightful afternoon, one of Princeton's best, all beholding us 
according us the honors of our age, with enthusiastic cheers, 
and the rightful position at the left of the line. 

At the Banquet on Monday, at the Princeton Inn, we sat 
down fifteen in number ; — Hall, Hendrickson, Inman, Littell, 
Nichols, Patton, F. Reeder, Sexton, Strickler, Stryker, Swin- 
nerton, Van Cleve, Vredenburg, Young and Zabriskie. At 
the Alumni Dinner, Tuesday, in the great new Gymnasium, 
those recalled were Freeman, — who was our spokesman and 
made an excellent speech, — Foster, Hayt, Littell, Patton, 
Pumyea, Swinnerton and perhaps one or two others. 



Princeton, Sixty-three 69 

The thanks of the Class are due and ought to be extended to 
Stryker and Patton for the truly splendid manner in which this 
Class celebration was prearranged and carried out. It was a de- 
lightful success in every respect, — save the financial penalty to 
the Class prex. and the painstaking Secretary for daring to push 
it through. A. B. and A. M. 

OSCAR F. HORNER, of New Egypt, in Ocean county, 
N. J., entered Sophomore, and left at the end of that year. 
He was a man of some musical taste, and enjoyed the dis- 
tinction, a little rare in those days, of having a piano in his 
room. He resides on the family homestead a little out of 
the village of his birth with his married brother and an un- 
married sister. He occupies the office of Justice of the Peace 
of the Township. His principal business is reported that of 
surveyor and engineer of lands and scrivener in the drawing 
of the necessary papers in the transfer of real estate, con- 
tracts, etc., and he is much respected as a citizen by the 
people of the section where he has always resided. 

JAMES COOPER HUESTON was a most able and ener- 
getic member of the Journalist profession, General Manager 
of the New York Associated Press, and subsequently a law 
practitioner of New York. 

He was of Northern parentage, the son of John and Chris- 
tiana E. Hueston, and was born at Baton Rouge, Louisiana, 
December 31, 1843. His father, a native of Massachusetts, 
went to that place in the early forties and became the Editor 
of the Baton Rouge Gazette, but lost his life in a duel with a 
rival editor. At the time the " Record " of 1866 was published 
Hueston was in the employ of the Southwestern Telegraph 
Company, at Baton Rouge, and stated the earlier facts of his 
life, in brief; — that he prepared at Baton Rouge College Insti- 
tute and Oakland College, Mississippi ; that he entered Fresh- 
man, roomed at 3 West, and left at the end of that year; and 
that he spent " four years in the Confederate army." He had 
met only two of the Class, " during four years of wandering 
and vicissitude," viz., Hutchins and Locke, and he concludes a 
very cordial letter with these fraternal words : " Though with 
the Class but one year — its youngest, but, I dare say, not its 



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most uneventful one — and though a stranger to most of those 
who enjoyed the high privilege of spending within the peace- 
ful shades of ' Nassau Hall ' those other years, so full of fear- 
ful strife, I yet cherish the kindest sentiments towards one 
and all. Those days I spent with my brethren of the Class 
of '63, were among the happiest of my life." 

The Class Historian expended much effort and research in 
vain before developing the following satisfactory account of 
Mr. Hueston's career, — for which he is indebted in particular 
to John McGrath, Esq., of the Baton Rouge Daily Truth, 
and to Charles S. Diehl, of the Associated Press, and likewise 
to our Classmate, Zabriskie, who some years ago met Hueston 
in New York, — where 'he had been for years, completely hid- 
den from us, in the blaze of publicity. 

At the outbreak of the war his avowed purpose was to enter 
the Confederate army, and, to avoid anticipated objection from 
his mother, he went directly to Northern Louisiana and joined 
a company composed of fellow-townsmen, known as the 
Pelican Rifles, which became a part of the Third Louisiana Infan- 
try. His regiment was sent to Missouri and was engaged in 
the battles of Elk's Horn and Oak Hill, so known to that side 
of the conflict. He was not a robust youth, and the hardships 
of the first year's campaigning made him for a time an invalid. 
During his convalescence he was taught telegraphy by a half- 
brother, and seemingly he picked up the printer's art in the 
intervals. He became an expert telegrapher, and soon after 
was detailed to the Confederate Military telegraph corps, and 
remained in that service throughout the war. Captain Mc- 
Grath states, from local information, that " Just after the bat- 
tle of Shiloh the Third Regiment was ordered to join Beaure- 
gard at Corinth, where Hueston participated in the battle of 
Farmerville and other skirmishes. In June, 1862, an order 
was issued to discharge all boys under age, in which class he 
was embraced. However, on returning home he found Louisi- 
ana in the hands of the United States forces, and at the close 
of the war he was a telegraph operator for the Confederate 
Government." 

He related to Zabriskie that, after the war, he was employed 
in New Orleans when the yellow fever epidemic raged there in 
the late sixties, and on the death by it of the Agent of the New 



Princeton, Sixty-three 71 

York Associated Press, he acted in that capacity as a volunteer, 
and afterwards permanently held the position until he was 
promoted to be Assistant General Manager, and was called to 
New York to take that post. This was in 1867, and, as Mr. 
Diehl states, while serving in that position he graduated from 
the Columbia College Law School. In 1875 he was sent to 
London to take charge of the Associated Press office there as 
Manager, and, on the retirement of Mr. Simonson, the General 
Manager in New York, in 1880, he was elected to that impor- 
tant position and was recalled to that city. He remained 
General Manager for nearly two years when he resigned, owing 
to broken health, and afterwards practiced law in the city. 
He died in New York in 1896, after an illness of two years. 

While in London Mr. Hueston married a daughter of ex- 
Mayor Holmes, of Portland, Oregon, who survives him with 
one daughter. Mrs. Hueston's present address is No. 137 
East Thirty-fourth street, New York. 

Captain McGrath writes, with the affectionate familiarity 
of an intimate of years gone by : "I regret that I cannot fur- 
nish more information as to the life and death of ' Jimmie,' 
I knew him and knew his family quite well, but all have 
passed away from the life of Baton Rouge, and 

' Time has swept, and Time is sweeping, 
Many a memory from my keeping.' " 

SAMUEL BAIRD HUEY, of Scotch Presbyterian and 
patriotic ancestry, dating from 1763, was born in Pittsburg, 
June 7, 1843. Grandson of John Thompson Huey and Mar- 
garet Culbertson, his father, Samuel C. Huey, down to 1886 
was prominent in Philadelphia business affairs and was Presi- 
dent of the Pennsylvania Mutual Life Insurance Company 
until his death. His great-grandfather fell in the battle of 
Trenton. Prepared in the schools of the city, and valedic- 
torian in the Central High School, he entered Princeton 
Soph-half-advanced, in February, 1861, was Class " Ode-ist," 
and graduated with honor. He was one of those sent away 
as prematurely patriotic for raising the flag on North College, 
and charioted to the old railroad station in spontaneous ova- 
tion by his fellow students. He served in the Navy from 
June, 1863, till January, 1866, as Ensign upon the staff of 



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Admiral Theodorus Bailey, on the San Jacinto, and afterwards 
in the Pay Department, taking part in actions at Charleston, 
Fort Fisher and Wilmington. 

Taking up the Law on the close of the war, he studied in the 
office of John C. Bullitt, entered, and graduated LL. B. in 
1868, from the Pennsylvania University Law School, and 
began practice in the city. He married, June 4, 1868. Of 
seven children there survive: Arthur Baird, Pennsylvania 
University, '92 ; Samuel Culbertson, '99, and Malcolm Sid- 
ney, '01, of Philadelphia; Mrs. Walter Moses, of Trenton, 
and Miss Dorothy Huey. 

Samuel B. Huey was, perhaps, as alert and busy a man as 
our class numbered ; the mere catalogue of his activities filling 
out a tale of unusual length. He was one of Philadelphia's 
most prominent and most useful citizens, his interest extend- 
ing to many directions. An active elder in the West Walnut 
Street Presbyterian Church, he was Superintendent there of 
one of the largest Sunday Schools in the city, was a director 
of the Young Men's Christian Association, and interested in 
all religious affairs. He was prominent in social, military, 
political and Masonic organizations, as well as in financial 
institutions, in the cause of education, and all the larger inter- 
ests of his profession. No one of us took a more eager interest 
in College and Class affairs. In all these directions his atten- 
tion seemed always easy to gain, his counsels were much 
sought, and he was the object of many marks of honor and 
confidence. 

He served as Captain and Aide-de-Camp in the First Regi- 
ment and as Assistant Adjutant-General, Second Brigade, 
Pennsylvania National Guard, from which he resigned through 
the pressure of his rapidly increasing legal business, in 1878. 
His rank at the Bar was very high and for many years his 
practice was large and lucrative, much of it in extensive cor- 
poration matters, and his house was the trusted correspondent 
of prominent law firms in various cities. During the existence 
of the Bankrupt Law he is said to have had the largest busi- 
ness and experience in such cases before the United States 
courts of the district, and upon more than one occasion in 
press of business Judge Cadwallader called Mr. Huey to assist 
in passing upon pending cases. It was in his office in the 



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Drexel building that he was attacked with the heart weakness 
which, after repeated flattering rallies, terminated his life 
nine days later, November 21, 1901. 

Mr. Huey's chief connection with political interests was as 
Secretary of the Union League, through which he exerted 
much of quiet but influential power, and the body marked 
their appreciation of his services by a gold medal on his retire- 
ment from its active duties, in 1888. But much of his most 
valued and long-continued public service was as member, and 
as President for many years up to the time of his death, of 
the Board of Public Education, a work entirely congenial to 
his educated tastes, and in which he rendered a most faithful 
and intelligent administration ; was very highly appreciated, 
and contributed efficiently during his long connection, to the 
improvement of the organization, the edifices and the system 
of tuition. To this useful position he was appointed by the 
judges of the Common Pleas, in 1886, and he served as Chair- 
man of the Committee on the Central High School for Boys, 
interesting himself very much to effect important alterations, 
in the course of which he visited many other cities to examine 
methods and appliances with a view to perfect a thorough 
remodelling of the institution. His reward was the satisfac- 
tion he felt in seeing the vastly-increasing attendance and 
public interest, which soon called for the erection of the new 
and noble pile of buildings at Broad and Greene streets. He 
did excellent work for the improvement of the condition of 
the colored people, and was Manager, and long Treasurer, of 
the Fred Douglas Hospital for their use. 

He was a founder and member of the Art Club, of the Uni- 
versity Club, and of the West Philadelphia Institute ; and a 
supporter of the Western Home for Poor Children. He was 
a member of the Loyal Legion and of the Grand Army of the 
Republic; of the National Bar Association, and was on the 
Boards of Direction of the Spring Garden Insurance Company, 
the City Trust and Security Company, and the Edison Electric 
Light Company, of which he was legal adviser. As one of the 
soundest business men of the Church he was placed by the 
Presbyterian General Assembly on the Committee, with such 
men as ex-President Harrison and Hon. John W. Foster, to 
decide on the sale or retention of the costly and imperilled 



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Presbyterian building in Fifth avenue, N. Y. He found time 
to serve this Class as our efficient and pains-taking Secretary 
for many years, and always had leisure to write us, or to see 
and entertain us. 

His death was sudden and much lamented ; " The regard in 
which he was held was indicated by the honor shown him in 
death." The schools were closed in respect to his memory, 
and his remains were followed to Laurel Hill by a great num- 
ber of men prominent in the business and professional life 
of the city. One among the body of Pall Bearers was Dr. 
Stryker, our Classmate, who was his attending physician, 
and his colleague in the worship of the West Walnut Street 
Church. His widow resides at 41 12 Walnut street, long the 
family home. A. B. and A. M. 

G. DRUMMOND HUNT, Jr., was raised in Fayette county, 
Kentucky, in the midst of the hemp fields and rich cultivation 
pictured by James Lane Allen in " The Reign of Law." It 
was not far from Lexington, and he was of a cultured family 
such as early distinguished that city, the seat of a social and 
intellectual life so solid as to seem more ancient than it was ; 
— perhaps the original of that idealized in " The Mettle of the 
Pasture," by the same writer. 

Hunt received his death wound at Mission Ridge, in the 
battle of November 25, 1863, and died on the 29th, in his 
twenty-second year. As materials of his career, we have an 
obituary in the " Record " of 1866, from a friend in Kentucky, 
and also a sermon preached over his remains on the occasion 
of his funeral at Lexington, by Rev. D. R. Campbell, LL. D., 
of Georgetown, December 26, — from the text, Ezek. 24: 16, 
" Behold, I take from thee the desire of thine eyes . . . but 
thou shalt not mourn nor weep." The discourse was a de- 
fence of the war as justifying the sacrifice even of such offer- 
ings as this noble young life. 

Drummond Hunt was born April 24, 1842, the son of Gavin 
D. Hunt, Sr., " a very highly respected man, as was his family 
on both sides." He had schooling at Lexington and completed 
his preparation for College at Plainfield, N. J. He entered 
with us at the beginning of the Freshman year. We all 
remember his fine tall figure and gentlemanly address. Dur- 



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ing the Sophomore year he left, not immediately to enter the 
army, but owing to the uncertainties induced by the agitated 
times. He entered Georgetown College, a Baptist institution 
at an educational centre in Scott county, in the midst of the 
blue grass region, seventeen miles east of Frankfort. His 
health was delicate and he was soon compelled to relinquish 
study. The surges of war, moreover, were around him, and 
he took up arms for the Union. 

In the Spring of 1862 he entered the Federal army as First 
Lieutenant in the Fourth Kentucky Volunteers, and was 
selected soon after by General Fry for Acting Assistant Adju- 
tant-General on his staff, in front of Corinth. In October he 
was made Inspector of the Third Brigade, of the Fourteenth 
Corps; and finally became Adjutant of the Third Kentucky 
Infantry. He was in all the skirmishes in front of Tullahoma, 
and in all the movements in connection with the advance on 
Chattanooga. He won commendation at Chickamauga from 
his brigade and division commanders, and even attracted the 
notice of General Thomas, seizing the colors of a routed regi- 
ment near him and bringing them into effective action again, 
by which he saved his own command from the effects of a 
bad example and secured them important support at a critical 
moment. But he was too brave ; at Mission Ridge far in 
advance of his regiment, making for Bragg's headquarters, 
and only a hundred yards from it he was struck in the thigh 
by a minie ball, his mare and his State flag in his hand each 
riddled with shots. His wound shattered the bone, and he 
died, " As noble and pure and gallant a man as ever yielded 
up life in the cause of country." 

Hunt was a member of the Baptist Church at Bryan Sta- 
tion, near his home. His eldest brother, Colonel P. Burgess 
Hunt, is U. S. Marshal of Texas, at Dallas. A first cousin 
is Judge Joseph D. Hunt, of Lexington. 

JOHN HUTCHINS, M.D., is a practicing physician at 
Selma, Drew county, Arkansas, where he has resided since 
1872. Adams county, Mississippi, near Natchez, was the 
place of his birth, and the date, September 17, 1843, — but it 
not being convenient to " ask his grandmother," he is not 
able to recall " any prodigies of early life." " To be candid," 



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he says, " I believe the world has been more friendly to me 
than I deserve." As to news from any Classmate, his report 
is singularly like that of most of us, next to nil ; — "As a result 
of the war, and the unsettled condition of the South for years 
after, we were all thrown upon our own resources and, wan- 
dering far away from our old homes, have entirely lost sight 
of each other." The only exception to this was a meeting 
with J. Henley Smith at Louisville, in 1868, who was making 
the tour of the South with his bride. He is glad to hear that 
Professor Cameron, one, at least, of the old Faculty, is alive ; 
and he would, like so many others, be glad to take Dennis 
once more by the hand, — though Dennis, the Class Historian 
is told, is really no more in the land of the living. 

His preparation for College was by private tuition at his 
Mississippi home, and he was of " the original Class " that 
entered in 1859. After leaving Princeton, in 1861, like a num- 
ber of the fellows from the South, — all very young yet, — he 
sought at first to continue his education at some Southern 
institution, and entered La Grange College, in Tennessee, 
as a Junior. The war pressure became too great, however, 
and he left in 1862 and enlisted in the Confederate army, as 
a private in the Tenth Mississippi Infantry, Chalmers' Bri- 
gade, Polk's Corps, Army of Tennessee. In this capacity he 
served till the close of the war, surrendering in North Caro- 
lina with the army under General Joseph E. Johnston. These 
veterans all seem to think it quite too much to attempt telling 
which fifty out of the hundred battles they took part in! 
Immediately after leaving the army, in 1865, he began the 
study of Medicine at Tulane, in New Orleans, and graduated 
in 1868. For a while he practiced his profession in Missis- 
sippi, and then came to Arkansas, as above stated, in 1872. 

He is married, but has no children. He has no " Public hon- 
ors or mighty deeds " to record, but the proud satisfaction of 
feeling, " it has been in my power at times to relieve human 
suffering and to palliate, if not to prevent or eradicate, human 
woes. And if I have not always ' done my duty,' why, at your 
suggestion, I will, — from now, henceforth ! " He rejoices, — 
and in this we do rejoice with him, — that he has " a very com- 
fortable home, and one of the noblest of women for a wife." 

Dr. Hutchins's father and grandfather were natives of Mis- 



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sissippi. His great-grandfather immigrated from New Jersey 
to that region about the time of the Revolution. His mother 
was a native of Virginia. 

Later he writes : " I must give you a list of the battles, — 
that is, the big ones, — in which with my command I took 
part : — Shiloh, Murfreesboro, Chickamauga, Franklin and 
Nashville. I was never wounded, but came very near to 
death twice from sickness incidental to camp life and expo- 
sure. I am impatient to read the Class History when it is 
complete, — it will be so interesting and will revive memories 
that are among the happiest of my life." 

SAMUEL MARTIN INMAN is of patriot ancestry on both 
his father's and his mother's sides, " Revolutionary soldiers 
who were in evidence at King's Mountain." The son of 
Shadrach W. and Jane (Martin) Inman, both of old North 
Carolina and Virginia families, he was born at Dandridge, 
Jefferson county, Tennessee, February 19, 1843. He prepared 
at Maryville College, near Knoxville, and entered Princeton 
in the Fall of i860, his room being at 13 West College. At 
the great outbreak, which so sadly broke us up, he left for the 
South with the great body of students from the seceding 
States. During the war he was a Lieutenant in Company K, 
in the First Tennessee Cavalry of the Confederate army, and 
was part of the time under General Joseph Wheeler, having 
enlisted July 20, 1861. 

The war over, he began business as a merchant at Augusta, 
Ga., as a partner in the firm of Rail & Inman. At that time 
he wrote to us at our Triennial gathering : " I feel the highest 
regard for and the strongest interest in the welfare of my 
brothers of '63, to each and all of whom I hope our worthy 
Secretary will kindly remember me . . . There is no class 
of men for whom I feel a stronger attachment than my Prince- 
ton associates, and especially the Class of '63." 

Subsequently he removed to Atlanta, where and in New 
York he did a large and prosperous business in cotton. At 
one time the scale of his firm's operations in the great south- 
ern staple commodity was one of the largest, if not the largest, 
in the world. Mr. Inman attained a very solid financial posi- 
tion, even for days like these, and retired from the business 



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in August, 1902, from that time associating himself with the 
larger interests of finance and transportation. 

He has been married twice ; on February 19, 1868, to Miss 
Jennie Dick, of Rome, Ga., who died in July, 1890. Two sons 
and a daughter are of this union, all of whom are married, and 
there are six grandchildren, three boys and three girls. He 
married secondly, Miss Mildred M. McPheeters, of Raleigh, 
December 15, 1902, by whom there are no children. 

In financial affairs Mr. Inman is in the Directorate of the 
great Equitable Life Assurance Society and of the Equitable 
Trust Company, of New York, in which he is associated with 
James W. Alexander, of Princeton name ; of one of the Fire 
Insurance Companies ; of two of the strong Banks in Atlanta, 
and of the Southern Railway Company. He has traveled 
extensively in Europe, as well as in Mexico, Canada, etc., and 
business or pleasure has taken him into nearly all the Terri- 
tories and States of the Union. 

His present address is P. O. Box 1580, New York, where, 
or in Lakewood, N. J., he has lived temporarily for several 
years ; but he expects to make Atlanta his permanent home. 
He is a Ruling Elder in the First Presbyterian Church in the 
latter city, and much identified with its local affairs. He has 
been on the boards of various schools, hospitals and Churches. 
A project is being co-operated in by him for the unification, 
if the way is made clear, and endowment of some of the 
various Theological Seminaries and Colleges in the South, 
now small and widely scattered, in one strong institution at 
Atlanta. He is able to write : " I have interested myself 
during my business life in measures calculated to benefit those 
about me, and have the approval of my conscience that I have 
tried in a degree to live for others." 

Mr. Inman has been very little in political life, and has never 
sought advancement in the field of public office. He enjoys, 
however, in an enviable degree the confidence of the people of 
his State, as well as of the South generally; his culture and 
abilities, and likewise his business talent and experience in the 
handling of large affairs are thoroughly appreciated, and fit 
him for public trust, as they doubtless would put any trust of 
the kind easily within his reach, from his city or his State, 
if he signified his inclination. But while this is known to his 



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friends, or to those in his confidence, the honor of a Gover- 
nor's chair or the distinction of a place in the Senate have 
not been attractive enough as yet to draw him from the quiet 
life of a private citizen. 

He is exceedingly loyal to Princeton and its ideals, — " En- 
deavoring through the Church and school and the channels of 
general benevolence to help my fellow-beings, if I have suc- 
ceeded, I attribute a full share to the benign influences and 
associations of dear old Princeton." The College reinstated 
him and gave him the degree of A. M. in 1886. He left Prince- 
ton at the end of our Sophomore year scarcely more than a 
boy, in rather slender health. But the rugged demands and 
wholesome outdoor life of the years in the army developed 
him into a strong and very capable man. His Classmates were 
glad to see him at the Reunion, after so many years and such 
changes as these wonderful years have brought. He wears 
the look of great self-command, and of a decision and execu- 
tive power that are very marked and seem to account for his 
success. 

In his character of a man of large business influence Mr. 
Inman has been an earnest contributor to the coalescing of the 
interests of the North and the South which marks our day ; and 
he stands, with several others of our highly-valued Classmates, as 
worthily representing our College generation in the increasingly 
important field of modern commercial energy and world-develop- 
ing finance. They are instances in illustration of the differ- 
ence between the passive hoards of ancient selfish " riches," 
and the benignly active accumulations of the modern Chris- 
tian capitalist ; whose resources, managed in accordance with 
principles of intelligence and responsibility, are the sinews of 
an endless beneficent power. Hon. A .M. 1886. 

HUNTINGTON WOLCOTT JACKSON died, to the sor- 
row of all who knew him, January 3, 1901, at the family home 
in Newark, N. J., the city where he was born all but sixty 
years before on the 20th of the same month, 1841. His death 
closed a noble career in which additional lustre was shed on 
a worthy ancestry. He was one of the most eminent lawyers 
of Chicago, honored with the reliance of the best men of the 
city, charged with high pecuniary, legal and munificent 



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responsibilities, and animated by lofty patriotism, municipal 
spirit and devotion to the public good. He was the cultivated 
and serviceable descendant of illustrious forbears ; James 
Jackson, a religious man who mingled the best qualities of the 
three strong races of the British Isles, settled on the banks of the 
Hudson in the year 1746, where by marriage with the Schuylers, 
Brinkerhoffs and Vander Lindes, the fine traits of the Nether- 
lands Dutch blood were added. On his mother's side the best 
New England descent contributed elegant social qualities, com- 
bined with intellectuality and piety. Her great-grandfather, 
Major-General Roger Wolcott, was Colonial Governor of Con- 
necticut; her grandfather, Oliver Wolcott, was one of those who 
signed the Declaration of Independence ; her uncle, Oliver 
Wolcott, Jr., was President Washington's Secretary of the 
Treasury ; her father, Frederick Wolcott, held important 
positions on the Bench for forty years ; — and her mother was 
a Huntington, a name of signal renown for eminent men in 
art, literature and jurisprudence, one of whom, Samuel, was 
likewise a Signer and a Governor of Connecticut. 

Of his father, John P. Jackson, it was once told the present 
writer by his son, our Classmate, that every morning, before 
giving his attention to the pressing demands of a most busy 
life, he spent one hour in his library in careful study of the 
Bible. He was a deeply scholarly man, who had graduated 
with the highest honors at our College as early as 1823, set-' 
tied in Newark in the Law, and soon became connected with 
the opening enterprises of transportation as counsel for the 
New Jersey Railroad and Transportation Company, with 
which he remained identified as Vice-President and Active 
Manager till his death, and filling many other spheres of 
usefulness. 

The marriage of Elizabeth Wolcott and John P. Jackson 
was the founding of a notable family, five sons and four 
daughters, of whom Huntington was the youngest but one. 
He formed some life-long friendships and graduated at Phillips 
Academy, and entered College with us ; was heartily admired 
by us all and loved for his heartiness and gaiety, went through 
the excitements incident to the rupture of ties, as well of 
friendship as of country, and left at the end of Junior to help 
the cause of the nation. He had taken part with others in 



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raising the flag on the bell-tower of old North and had been 
dismissed. They could not comply with the demand that the 
emblem of the Union should be taken down by those who 
raised it. The painfully trying position of the College authori- 
ties, sustained by the support and dharged with the care of 
youth from both sections, they could not appreciate ; and they 
accepted dismission. 

Jackson's war record was very brilliant, but is too long for 
this place. It has been printed several times in full. He was 
brave, enterprising and gallant and won successive promotions 
for conspicuous deeds of self-forgetful valor. He entered as 
Second Lieutenant in the Fourth New Jersey Infantry, but 
soon passed to the staff of General Newton. He was at 
Antietam, Gettysburg, Chancellorsville ; he won special dis- 
tinction at Marye's heights in the battle of Fredericksburg; 
and he was on the Cumberland, wounded at Kenesaw, and in 
all the battles till Atlanta and Jonesboro. No soldier, perhaps, 
saw more or did more, or was more purely patriotic, disin- 
terested and high-souled in all that magnificent and solemnly 
tremendous contest. 

He studied law at Harvard, faced west to Chicago, and there, 
after a time in the office of Waite & Clark, he formed with 
his old Cambridge friend, David B. Lyman, the law firm of 
Lyman & Jackson, continuing till 1895 when Mr. Lyman 
withdrew, and with a son of his the firm became Jackson, 
Busby & Lyman. They acquired a large and valuable prac- 
tice which extended through all the courts of the State and dis- 
trict and the Circuit and Supreme courts of the United States. 

In 1878, to meet a contingency created by local corruption 
in political affairs, he accepted the Supervisorship of the town 
of South Chicago. With this exception Mr. Jackson declined 
all public office, and yet, while never a politician, he was most 
earnest and alert in his duties as a citizen. Among important 
trusts confided to him, his long-time friend and bachelor 
comrade, John Crerar (for strange to say both these warm- 
hearted men remained unmarried), left in his hands as co- 
trustee with a third kindred spirit, Norman Williams, whose 
dreams had been of more and better books for the people, an 
estate of some millions for the creation of an adequate Library 
in Chicago. Williams was the first president, while Jackson 



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labored conscientiously to frame the scheme and protect the 
fund from spoliation, and succeeded him when he died. The 
John Crerar Library is a magnificent monument to all three. 
His brethren of the Bar express the opinion that the over- 
strain of his great exertions in rescuing this sacred trust 
from the jeopardy of unfounded claims and litigation broke 
his strength and contributed to a death which was a real 
public loss and deep personal grief to a multitude. He sought 
respite in travel, going as far as Egypt and the Nile, but 
returned to home and country only to bid them and his friends 
a speedy farewell. He was a man of undisguised yet unos- 
tentatious religious faith, taking his letter from the Church, 
in Newark, the South Park, that he early joined, to connect 
himself with another, the Second Presbyterian, in Chicago. 
He had a fine and naturally military look, and wore an air 
of distinction which was with utter absence of arrogance or 
conceit of self. Apart from more solid qualities, his spirits, 
that never seemed to flag, his cheerfulness almost to gaiety, 
his sympathy, all but caressing, drew upon liking in a way 
that was singularly attractive. 

His career has been beautifully summed up by the Chicago 
Literary Club (from which some of the foregoing expressions 
have been taken) ; by the Chicago Bar Association, of which 
he was President in 1888, and in the Annual Report of the 
John Crerar Library for 1900, which presents also a noble 
profile portrait of him, and which in speaking of his splendid 
character as felt by those about him and made manifest to 
his correspondents, embodies the following words of a Class- 
mate who had received news of his death : " I saw much of 
him when we were at Princeton together ; we often walked 
together, and I felt it an honor and an encouragement to have 
his regard, and he certainly won from me a sincere and admir- 
ing affection, which I have never parted with and such as 
few men have ever been able to inspire in me. Our ways 
and work have lain far asunder, but I have heard with pride 
from time to time how he had won men's esteem and trust. 
An occasional interchange of letters has always brought back 
the feeling of uplift — a kind of communication of something 
of his own superabounding exhilaration of life and strength. 
God bless his memory ! " A. B. and A. M. 



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SAMUEL HAYES JACOBUS was born in Brooklyn, N. Y., 
where his father was pastor of the First Presbyterian Church, 
November I, 1845. He was grandson of Peter Jacobus, of 
Netherlands extraction, a manufacturer and honored Elder 
of the First Presbyterian Church, Newark, N. J. ; and son 
of Rev. Melancthon W. Jacobus, D. D., LL. D., Professor in 
the Allegany Seminary, a very eminent minister, author and 
scholar, who as Moderator of the General Assembly (O. S.), 
conjointly with Dr. Fowler, the New School Moderator, pre- 
sided at the opening of the re-united Assembly in 1870. His 
mother was Sarah Hayes, lineal descendant of Major Samuel 
Hayes, of the Revolutionary army; and on the side of her 
mother of John Ogden, of Colonial statesmanship fame. 

He attended private schools in Pittsburg and at Tusca- 
rora Academy, Pennsylvania, and spent the Freshman and 
Sophomore years with the Class, when he was compelled to 
leave on account of ill-health, which change of vocation 
seemed for some years to improve. He was graduated with 
the Class of '64, he was a cousin of Oscar Keen, '65, of 
Newark, and was the elder brother of Dr. M. W. Jacobus, 
of Hartford Seminary, a Trustee of Princeton Seminary. 

Mr. Jacobus entered business and followed that career with 
success, first as connected with the firm of Jones & Nimick, 
manufacturers of hardware at Pittsburg ; afterwards the house 
becoming the Jacobus & Nimick Manufacturing Company, and 
its business concentrated in the manufacturing of locks. His 
health failed in 1882, at which time he retired from business and 
removed with his family to Plainfield, N. J., where he resided 
until his death. In the early fall of 1882, in hope of improve- 
ment, he went with Mrs. Jacobus to Colorado Springs, where, 
however, he died November 8th. 

He was graduated A. B. with the Class of 1864, and received 
his A. M. in course. 

He married, October 5, 1869; — his family consisted of a 
son and three daughters, of whom one daughter and his widow, 
Mrs. Elizabeth P. Jacobus, survive, residing at Lexington, Mass. 

Our recollections of S. H. Jacobus were always of pride, 
pleasure, and regret that the Class had lost him. He had 
the stamp of able and gracious personality which has marked 
others of his name. A. B. '64 and A. M. 



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SAMUEL BEACH JONES, M. D., since 1872 a physician 
in extensive practice in New York City, where he is held in 
high esteem, was one of several of our number who prepared for 
College at that excellent school, the West Jersey Academy at 
Bridgeton ; and was one of those who to our deep regret 
were compelled by ill-health to break off the College course 
in its early stages and terminate all too soon the intimacy of 
happy student life with those who so much appreciated them. 
He entered with us as a Freshman in August, 1859, and left 
in the last half of the Sophomore year, Spring of 1861. He 
received, however, the honorary degree of Master of Arts 
from Princeton in 1881, and thus continued an honorable con- 
nection with the place which began with his ancestors and 
which is carried on by his sons. 

Dr. Beach Jones bears the family name of his grandmother, 
Mary Lamball Beach ; his mother was Sarah Ralston Chester, 
daughter of Rev. Dr. John Chester, of the Second Presby- 
terian Church at Albany. His father, Rev. Samuel Beach 
Jones, D. D. (born in Charleston), pastor for many years of 
the First Church, Bridgeton, a graduate of Yale and of Prince- 
ton Seminary, had been a Professor of Theology and Hebrew 
in Oakland College, Mississippi, and was a Director of Prince- 
ton Seminary from 1847 to T ^3 and a Trustee of the College 
in our day. Our Classmate's son, naturally enough, Paul' 
Townsend Jones, C. E., was of the Princeton Class of '02; 
his second son, Leonard Chester, is of the Class of '07 ; — and 
his third, Edward Crosby (of Pomfret School, Class of '05), may 
profit by their example — if that is treason, make the most of it! 

It is a patriotic stock, too, for one great-great-grandsire, 
Captain John Chester, fought at the battle of Bunker Hill; 
another in the same degree, moreover, — Samuel Beach, A. M. 
(of deservedly perpetuated name), graduated at the Old Col- 
lege and from Whig Hall, in 1783, and was a Tutor of those 
days, as well as a member of the early American Philosophical 
Society. And the ministerial line of ancestry goes back yet one 
degree further, to the Rev. John Thomas, remembered as the first 
pastor of the " Circular Church," independent, at Charleston. 

It was hard lines for a youth of such decently professional 
and scholarly forebears to be driven even temporarily out of 
the succession. Seeking an occupation favorable to slender 



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health, he went into Engineering, mechanical and civil, and 
followed it in Massachusetts, Pennsylvania and New York, 
until 1868 ; — at the time our " Record of '63 " was published 
he was in the employ of the Pennsylvania Cannel Coal and 
Railroad Company. This wholesome contact with tools and 
metals and men brought back the coveted soundness, with 
which the native and ancestral bent for study asserted itself 
and was not to be denied. So he entered the Harvard Medi- 
cal School in Boston. In 1870, however, he changed to the 
Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons in 
New York, and came out an M. D. in 1872. For one. voyage 
he was surgeon on a " Black Ball liner," one of the famous 
clipper ships, the Charles H. Marshall. But first he became 
the Resident Physician to the Strangers' Hospital in New 
York. In 1872, finally, he settled in the city as a general Prac- 
titioner of Medicine, as assistant and partner to Professor 
T. Gaillard Thomas and Dr. H. F. Walker, with whom he 
pursued the arduous but congenial work for thirteen years; 
since which time he has practiced by himself, having his 
office at 12 East Thirty-third street, and residing at 165 Madi- 
son avenue ; — 'Occupied early and late with his humane labors, 
soothing the pain, allaying the anxious fears, staying the risk, 
grief and loss incident to sickness and calamity, birth and 
death, — and seeking no other claim to " distinction." 

Dr. Beach Jones married, October 22, 1878, Miss Gertrude 
Ralston Crosby, a niece of Dr. Howard Crosby, Chancellor 
of the University of New York and long the President of the 
Society for the Prevention of Crime. The children are the 
sons above mentioned, and one daughter who died in infancy. 
He keeps up the good churchly traditions of his house as a 
Ruling Elder, in association with Dr. George Alexander in 
the University Place Church, one of the tenacious few 
Churches "down town " (as we have to call it now — it is miles 
above the Battery), — yet remaining to stem the resistless glacier- 
advance of all-desolating " business " in the growth of the city. 

At Pointe-a-Pic, on the wide and breezy lower St. Law- 
rence, is a summer home, where diseases and such miseries 
do not come, and where the weary Doctor's heart and brain 
may rest. There, no doubt, a welcome waits the friends of 
forty years ago, as they sail, as they sail. Hon. A. M. 1881. 



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RICHARD THOMAS KING writes from his Plantation 
on Edisto Island, on the South Carolina coast, as late as 
March 12, 1904 : " I do not know of anything that would 
give me more pleasure than to attend a Class Reunion, and 
talk with the old boys about the times when we were all 
young ones, but I am afraid I shall never enjoy that pleasure. 
My affairs are not in a condition such as will enable me to 
make the trip to dear old Princeton, at least in the near future. 

I entered the South Carolina College in November, 1858, 
just a month before I was seventeen years old; left there 
and entered Princeton in August, 1859. I stayed out the 
Freshman year and one month of the Sophomore year. I 
was suspended for going to New York on a little frolic, which 
necessitated my absence until after the following December 
holidays. The State seceded on the 20th of that month, so 
I never returned. I entered the army in June, 1861, and was 
in it until the war ended. (Battles and things, of no con- 
sequence ! ) 

I was married in July, 1865; in February, 1885, my wife 
died, having borne me nine children, four boys and five girls, 
seven of whom are living. I have never married again. 

I am no relation to W. Howard King, of West Chester, Pa. 
(concerning whom the Class Historian had enquired, because 
the Freshman Year Catalogue gives him as occupying the same 
room, 14 East, with 'R. J.' King). I think the only other 
King in College with me was from Texas. (It gives among 
the Seniors, ' Jas. B. King, Gettysburg, Pa.') My grand- 
father was an Englishman, who came over here after the 
Revolution, married my grandmother, who was a Burden, 
and became a large planter. A brother followed him, who 
also married a Burden, sister of my grandmother; so that 
we have no relations of the name of King but the children 
of this granduncle. 

On the Burden side of the house, I am descended from the 
Kinsays of Pennsylvania. My great-grandmother on the 
King side was a Hawkins, and on that side I come from the 
Parkers, our ancestor being Archbishop of Canterbury in 
the reign of Elizabeth. My mother (to come down and start 
again), was a Wilkinson. On that side my great-grand- 
mother was a Swinton, and my great-great-grandfather (of 



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that name) was beheaded by the British during the war, 
near the plantation on which I was born. 

That event happened on the 28th of December, 1841, on the 
' Encampment ' plantation, St. Paul's Parish, in Colleton 
county, S. C. I have given you a sort of sketch of myself ; — 
to go into my pedigree in full would take too much time and 
space. I remember Mordecai just as well as if I had seen him 
a day or a week ago. Some of the names mentioned among 
those you have sent me I do not remember ; they must have 
entered the Class after I left in the Sophomore year. And I 
want you to send me the Class Roll of the Freshman year ; — 
if I remember correctly, it started this way, — ' Ambrose, 
Baird, Butler, H. Cox, R. Cox, B. Done, H. Done,' — now I can- 
not fill in, until I get to ' Jones, King, Marks, McGuire, Morde- 
cai, Moffat,' — then I remember some others, but I cannot name 
them in order. I remember the Roach boys, Reading, Patter- 
son, Pumyea, — 

We are quite busy just now, getting ready to put in our 
cotton crop, which we will begin to plant about the first of 
April. Corn and sweet potatoes will follow, also melons and 
all vegetables. The ' truck crops,' Irish potatoes, cabbages, 
etc., are all in. The grass is beginning to grow, and in a few 
days everything will be so green that the country will look 
like Spring. Well, I am afraid I am tiring you out, so I will 
wind up ; — answer this and tell me all about anything that will 
interest me in connection with the Class, how many gradu- 
ated, who took the Honors, and anything else that you can 
think of. If you are married and have a family give them my 
kindest regards, and accept for yourself the best wishes from 
your old friend and Classmate." Not a bit tired ; only wish 
there was more of it, — like a breath of balmy Southern air! 

Here in Cherry Valley, so far from planting green peas and 
onions, maple sap will not run ; in fact, at the end of April great 
snowbanks remained unmelted. 

(Mr. King's name appears erroneously in the Freshman 
Catalogue as " R. J. King.") Address, Edisto Island, P. O. 
South Carolina. 

As Mr. King asks how many graduated, it may be well to give 
here the program of "Speakers " at our graduation, " Signed by 
order of the Faculty, G. Musgrave Giger, Clerk. — College of 



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N. J., May 18, 1863." I append the final standing, " except 
those less than 70," from the " Circular" issued just before; — 
the unlucky ones who didn't get a speech following disgrace- 
fully behind : 

Latin salutatory, Mr. Mcllvaine, 99.4. 

English salutatory, Mr. Baldwin, 98.8. 

Valedictory oration, Mr. Sheldon, 98.8. 

Also the following additional speeches : 

Messrs. Young, "Philosophical Oration," 98.1; Clark, " Bel- 
les-Lettres Oration," 96.6; C. H. Potter, " Geological Oration," 
96.6 ; Freeman, " Physical Oration," 96.5 . 

Littell, 96.3 Nichols, 95.4 

Lowrie, 94.8 Vredenburg, 94.6 

Huey, 94.2 Sutphen, 94.0 

Pumyea, 93.4 Hall, 93.3 

Chetwood, 92.5 Foster, 92.3 

Dayton, 91. 1 Hendrickson, 91.0 

Van Cleve, 89.4 Smythe, 86.6 

Southard, 86.0 Westcott, 95.1 

Dubois, 94.5 
Hanlon, 93.5 
Swinnerton, 93.2 
Cross, 91.3 
Sayre, 89.4 
Parkhurst, 86.2 

Then the inferior orders of creation follow like this, — all going 
into the Ark, though Zabriskie, for some reason ill understood, 
fails of due mention; — for he graduated. He finally got aboard: 
Backus, 87.0; Canfield, 85.0; Hayt, 81.0; McCoy, 85.0; Patterson, 
84.0; Stryker, 80.0; Van Dyke, 76.0; C. Bergen, 85.3; J. S. Den- 
nis ;* Kunkel, 82.0; Miller, 78.0; Patton, 88.3; Smalley;* 
B. Thompson, 90.0; Zahner, 94.4; M. Bergen, 73.0; Haines;* 
Lujpton, 89.0 ; Murray, 89.3 ; Strickler, 72.0 ; Turnbull ;* 
Zabriskie. 

It will be seen that some of these last took higher grades than 
some of the Speakers. Those marked with the star were not 
regularly examined. It will be a nice amusement for you in 
your declining years to take a lead pencil and figure out the 
various Rolls, — Freshman, Sophomore, etc. — from the data in 
the sketches. 

The above count up just fifty names, with Zabriskie, fifty-one, 
graduating. To these are to be added the following who re- 



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ceived their Bachelor's degree with our Class, although they 
were serving in the army at the time of our graduation, — R. 
Cox, Hamilton, Holden, Holmes, Jackson, Marcellus, Moffat, 
W. E. Potter, F. Reeder, H. Reeder, Stanfield and McLeod 
Thomson, 12. (The last mentioned is omitted from the Cata- 
logue by error), making the total of our graduates easy to re- 
member, sixty-three. 

John M. Williams went under precisely the same circumstan- 
ces, in the Senior year, with the foregoing, and H. M. Williams 
with Stanfield in the Junior, but neither received the degree. 
The case of Hunt was different, as were some others. 

Butler, Jacobus and McCauley were graduated with the next 
Class, '64, and Toadvine bore a Hon. A. B. '64, and J. B. Done of 
'65, while McGuire comes back to us so late as 1901 with an 
A. B. " restored to the Roll of his Class," — making our count 
of graduates sixty-four. 

Then there are our other Honorarys, — McAtee, A. B. '67, 
Kirkpatrick, A. M. '72, Beach Jones A. M. '81, Inman A. M. '86. 
It will be a miracle if I have got this correct, but I cannot bother 
with it any longer. 

ANDREW KIRKPATRICK, son of John Bayard and Mar- 
garette Kirkpatrick, was born October 8, 1844,- in Washing- 
ton, D. C, where his parents temporarily resided, while his 
father was occupying the office of Third Auditor of the U. S. 
Treasury Department. A change of administration soon 
after necessitated a move, and the family was taken to the 
ancestral town of New Brunswick, N. J., where the father 
had been born. The grandfather was Andrew Kirkpatrick, 
who was a Trustee of the College of New Jersey and Chief 
Justice of that State from 1793 to 1821 ; — and whose wife was 
Jane Bayard, daughter of John Bayard, of Germantown, Pa., 
Colonel of the First Pennsylvania Regiment in the Revolu- 
tionary war, and a member of the Pennsylvania Committee 
of Public Safety. 

Kirkpatrick prepared at the Rutgers College Grammar 
School and entered the Class of 1863 in that College. Enter- 
ing upon a matter of personal explanation, he writes : " At 
the end of the Junior year, when the death of Theodore Fre- 
linghuysen, President of Rutgers, occurred, I thought it 



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would be wise to transfer to Princeton. I, therefore, sub- 
mitted to an examination and entered the Junior Class. My 
stay was short, from being confounded with one of those who 
were indulging in a ' horn spree.' I was requested to ' go 
home.' This I did, and although the evidence was strong 
that mistake had been made, I was told I could not be 
received back on the plea of innocence. I refused to go on 
any other terms, and my connection with the College ended. 
Afterwards, on a review of the evidence in regard to my con- 
nection with the ' horn spree,' the Trustees of the College 
were convinced of my entire innocence of the charge which 
had been made against me, and conferred on me the honorary 
degree of A. M. (1872), notwithstanding the cloud which the 
action of the Faculty threw around me." 

The Class of '63 take great pleasure in making distinct 
record of the foregoing act of honorable though tardy justice. 
Mr. Kirkpatrick was admitted, after examination, to the Senior 
Class in Union College, and graduated in the same Class of 
'63, receiving the degree of A. B. Immediately after he began 
the study of the Law with Hon. Frederick T. Frelinghuysen, 
in Newark, and was admitted Attorney in 1866, and Coun- 
sellor, 1869. He " plodded along with fair success " until 1885, 
when he was appointed President Judge of Common Pleas 
for Essex county. He was reappointed in 1890 and in 1895, 
resigning in 1896, on his appointment as Judge of the U. S. 
District Court, for New Jersey. " The appointment being for 
life, I do not think I will resign. These are the only paying 
offices I have held. There have been others connected with 
both Church and State, but it is not worth while to mention 
them." It may be said, however, that Justice Kirkpatrick's 
judicial and business repute have been of the highest, and have 
led to his employment in important trusts and receiverships. 
He has lived in Newark ever since he left College, is married, 
and has six children and one grandchild. He concludes, cheer- 
fully : " I do not complain of the way the world has used me. 
For the most part my lines have fallen in pleasant places, I 
have enjoyed good health, and hope to attend the Reunion 
of the Class in nineteen hundred and thirteen." So say we 
all of us ! 

The name of Kirkpatrick figures in a highly honorable 



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series on the Rolls of Princeton, at whose head, however, is 
Rev. William Kirkpatrick, Master of Arts, a Trustee of the 
College, of 1767 to 1769, who was an alumnus of 1757, but 
who appears to be a person apart. But passing this dignified 
figure, with nearly all those who follow our Classmate claims 
connection, commencing with the eminent judge above men- 
tioned, his grandfather, whose baptismal name as well as 
judicial character and office he has inherited. This Andrew 
Kirkpatrick, of the Class of 1775, Trustee of the College from 
1807 till his death in 183 1, was one of the founders of the 
Princeton Theological Seminary, being named in the list of 
its incorporators, and as the first on the list of Presidents of 
its Trustees. He held that office likewise till his death. He 
was early a Justice of the Supreme Court of New Jersey, 
serving seven years, when he became the Chief-Justice of the 
same court and continued for twenty-one years. 

Littleton Kirkpatrick, of the Class of 1815, was a son of the 
above, and uncle, of course, of our Classmate, and a Trustee 
of Queen's (Rutgers) College at New Brunswick from 1841 
till his death in 1859. He was Surrogate of Middlesex county 
and was for one term Member of Congress from New Jersey. 

His brother, John Bayard, father of our comrade, graduated 
at Queen's in 1814. His name is on the Princeton list of 
honorary degrees under date of 181 5, as Bachelor of Arts. 
Walter and Hugh Kirkpatrick, of '13 and '15, were sons of 
David Kirkpatrick, a brother of Judge Andrew. He was a 
Captain in the Revolutionary army and lived at Basking 
Ridge, the scene of many incidents of that war, in a house 
built by his father, Alexander, soon after the arrival of the 
family from Scotland, in 1736. The house descended to Hugh 
and on his death unmarried, Walter having been childless, 
the property passed out of the family, but is still standing 
in good repair, near the home of R. V. Lindabury, Esq. 

All of which gives the present Andrew an excellent right 
to call himself a Princeton man, and if the Judge, his grand- 
father, could open his eyes and see the magnitude of the sums 
and interests involved in the cases his descendant is tossing 
off day by day, he would be scared stiff and exclaim, What 
a world has this got to be ! 

Kirkpatrick's grandmother and Henley Smith's grandmother 



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were sisters, both being the daughters of John Bayard, who 
was a Trustee of the College. He writes, " We used to be 
schoolmates, but I have not seen him for fifty years. 
His grandfather was brought in touch with all the prominent 
men of the country, and I understand that Henley has just 
found a large lot of autograph letters addressed to his mother 
by Washington, Adams, Jefferson and Madison. Quite a lucky 
find ! " Hon. A. M., 1872. 

GEORGE JACOB KUNKEL was born at Shippensburg, 
Pa., April 28, 1843, the son °f Samuel and Rachel KunkeL 
He received his preparation with our Classmate, Miller, who 
was his cousin, at the Collegiate Institute of their native town, 
and entered our Class at the beginning of the Junior year, 
August, i860, and remained to graduate with this Class. He 
took up the study of Law at Shippensburg, reading there from 
1863 to 1865, and in September that year entered the Albany 
Law School, where he graduated the following May, with the 
degree of LL. B. He returned to Shippensburg, but in April, 
1867, commenced business as a practitioner at Harrisburg. 
He pursued the practice of Law there till he was overtaken 
by the disorder — locomotor ataxia, — from which he suffered 
as an invalid for some years. Incapaciated for business, he 
passed his time at home or at sanitariums until the year 1900, 
when he died at one of these establishments at Ephrata, Pa., 
July 11. 

Mr. Kunkel never married. He held no public office, and 
his life was evidently one of quiet work devoid of incidents 
that would be of public interest. The full name as given above 
is that furnished in corrected form by his brother, Mr. C. A. 
Kunkel, of the Mechanics' Bank, Harrisburg, — not " Jasper," 
as in the General Catalogue of the College, nor " Jared," as 
in the Triennial " Record." A. B. 

WILLIAM HENRY LITTELL was the first child born at 
that crossroads on the shoulder of the South Mountain west 
of the Oranges, two miles from New Providence, in Union 
county, New Jersey, where now rises the salubrious suburban 
city of villas and summer palaces known as Summit. It was 
May 2, 1840. His grandfather, John Littell, of Passaic Valley, 



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published a Genealogy of the settlers between Chatham and 
Littell's bridge, now very rare ; and from surveys of his own 
also published a map of the region, a valued copy of which, 
labelled, " To be sold only for Bread," by his mother's hand, 
is now in the possession of the family. Jonathan C. Bonnell, 
her father, was much interested in the building up of a town 
at the mountain crossroads, above referred to ; he was instru- 
mental in having the Morris and Essex railroad carried over 
that point ; and when his neighbor's son, William Littell, the 
father of our Classmate, married Mehetabel, his eldest daugh- 
ter, — whose home was in the same valley, near Chatham, — he 
said to the young couple : " Go and settle there, and the people 
will come to you." The first train of cars over the feeble rail- 
way, now the great line of the Delaware and Lackawanna, 
had to have the aid of William Littell's oxen to overcome the 
grade. It was the summit, and Summit it was called ; — the 
great Newark inventor, Seth Boyden, was called upon and 
devised a locomotive capable of climbing mountain ascents y 
the oxen were no longer needed, and our Classmate and the 
town grew, the Littells being for many years engaged as mer- 
cantile business men in the place. 

The Church relations were long at New Providence, how- 
ever, and there he was baptised, received into communion, and 
eventually licensed and ordained by the Presbytery of Eliza- 
beth to his work of the ministry. 

He prepared at Flushing Institute, with Smalley, entered 
Sophomore, graduated with the Class, and went to the Sem- 
inary, interrupting there in 1864 and 1865 while he was pri- 
vate tutor on Long Island, and completing the Theological 
course in 1867. At Atsion, in Burlington county, N. J., a new 
Church had been organized, to which he was called, where 
there was a prospect of establishing a place of an ideal sort 
such as Vineland, which was not far off, — 'but our Classmate's 
destiny was to turn on the action of railways ; the great and 
powerful Camden and Amboy influence in the winter of 1867 
succeeded in restraining the Raritan and Delaware Bay road 
from running its trains. On this road hung the life of Atsion, 
and the hopeful project was given up. With it ceased the 
promise of the Church enterprise. 

In 1868 Mr. Littell was called to the Presbyterian Church 



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at Setauket, near the Sound, which dates back to 1660, of which 
he is the ninth pastor in the space of two hundred and forty- 
four years ; and so this first child of the newest place about 
New York almost, became the latest incumbent of all but the 
very oldest of the Churches on Long Island ; — of which Rev. 
Nathaniel Brewster, grandson of Elder William, of the May- 
flower, was the first pastor. In Mr. Littell's long service with 
that Church there have been improvements of the property 
and a steady, though not large, increase in numbers, and he 
has enjoyed a happy home and work among his people. On 
the 28th of October, 1903, a reception was extended to the 
pastor and his family, at which were congratulations on his 
extended ministry and assurances that the " dead line " had 
not been reached at fifty. 

The family of our genial Classmate consists of his wife, 
whom he married in Newark, N. J., who was Miss Julia B. 
Brown, of Scotch descent, in a line made known in Biblical 
and other literary lines through John Brown, of Haddington, 
the Commentator, and the medical doctor, John Brown, who 
wrote " Rab and his Friends;" they have five children, — 
Robert Ballantine, Rutgers, '95 ; Lawrence Brown, who died 
at the age of eleven ; Anne Bethea, a graduate of the Peebles 
and Thompson School, New York ; Mabel Bonnell, a student 
of Blair Hall, who was hindered by illness from entering 
Holyoke ; and William Barnard, now a Junior at Princeton. 

A. B. and A. M. 

WILLIAM HUBBARD LOCKE was born in Greensboro, 
Alabama, August 20, 1842, — where he was prepared for Col- 
lege. He died in Cedarville, in the same State, November 11, 
1898. He was the son of John Locke, of North Carolina, and 
Ann Eliza Reese, of South Carolina, both prominent families. 

He entered College with the Class in 1859, and left Prince- 
ton in the latter part of i860, when he was a Sophomore, imme- 
diately entering the Southern University at Greensboro and 
remaining about a year. He then went to the State University 
at Tuscaloosa, where he studied till he was called out to join 
the Confederate army. A company was formed from the Uni- 
versity for Colonel Hodgson's Seventh Alabama Cavalry, 
under the Captaincy of Charles P. Storrs, in the Brigade of 



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General Clanton, and this company made up exclusively of 
cadets, formed Clanton's escort. The regiment was discharged 
in April, 1865. 

After the war Mr. Locke located himself in Selma, where 
he chose the mercantile business, in which he was engaged for 
some time, and from here he wrote to the Class in 1866, as 
mentioned in the " Record." His residence in his life subse- 
quent to this and at the time of his death was at Cedarville, 
in the western central part of the State, near Greensboro and 
the Tombigbee river, where he was engaged in planting. 

He married Miss Louise F. Jackson, December 20, 1866, in 
Greensboro. He has five living children and four grand- 
children. Mrs. Locke supplies the above and recalls to our 
recollection that he was a member of the Band at Nassau 
Hall, — " I notice in his autograph book allusions of his Class- 
mates to happy hours spent in music on the flute, violin and 
banjo, and of sweet songs together; Mr. A. H. Strickler par- 
ticularly speaks of it." Mrs. Locke refers affectingly to the 
College relics which were cherished by her husband, sacredly 
preserved by her, — the pictures of the Classmates in the 
" lovely Photograph Album," and of the Faculty (which we 
thought less lovely), and the buildings and surroundings of 
the old place. 

MATTHEW BONSALL LOWRIE is the President and 
Professor of the English Bible in the Presbyterian Theological 
Seminary at Omaha. 

He was born at Blairstown, N. J., April 10, 1844, at the time 
when his father was pastor of the Presbyterian Church there. 
His grandfather, Matthew B. Lowrie, came from Scotland as 
a boy in 1784, and became a distinguished citizen of Pitts- 
burg, Pa. His father, Rev. Dr. John Marshall Lowrie (Lafay- 
ette, '40), was a well-known clergyman, and was for many 
years pastor at Fort Wayne. The mother's grandfather was 
a trooper of the Revolution, a member of Washington's body 
guard. It is from good authority that he was a party to the 
following " inedited " incident of the " Father," who on a 
certain occasion rode up to a New Jersey farm-house and 
asked of the good wife, whose full pans were in plain sight, 
a draught of milk. " Oh, but I haven't any skimmed ! " she 



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said. " Never mind, my good woman," said Washington, in 
gracious tone, but with a glance of intelligence at Lowrie's 
ancestor, who was holding up one of the pans for the General- 
in-Chief to drink from, " Pray never mind, I like it this way ! " 
Lowrie protests his modesty about this event, but argues that 
if you have but a solitary fact to rest on, it is infinitely better 
to give it just as it is than to offer a multitude of facts that 
are not so. 

College preparation was, he says, " not all he could wish it 
to be, partly for reasons he could not help," — like many an- 
other, — yet he entered Soph, and graduated with the Class. 
Those were the days for impossible achievement ! — following 
with the course in the Seminary at Princeton. He feels he 
" owes a great deal to his training in Princeton College," as 
we all do. He had pastoral charges with reasonable comfort 
and results, successively in Troy, N. Y., Galesburg, 111., 
Boulder, Col., and elsewhere. Pastoral experience, however, 
was to be only the preparation for the very congenial sphere 
he was to enter later. In 1891 he was invited to a Professor- 
ship in the newly-organized Presbyterian Theological Sem- 
inary at Omaha. He accepted this and entered upon what 
was to prove his principal life work. A large share of the 
responsible oversight and administration of the Seminary has 
fallen upon him ever since early in his connection with it, at 
first rather to his regret and to the detriment of his proper 
branch of work. But he was placed in the Presidency ; the 
institution has been greatly prospered in the days of its 
youth which continues under his administration, and it is 
believed that it has an assured future. He writes ; " I am 
glad that my work, with that of others of our number, may 
be counted among the Class ' incidents ' which shape founda- 
tions, and is of a kind upon which already a noble structure 
is rising." 

Dr. Lowrie received his merited degree of Doctor of Divin- 
ity from Knox College, Illinois, in 1889. He married, May, 
1869, Miss Elizabeth Haas, of Indiana, whose cheer and help 
have been invaluable to him. Of three children, but one, the 
youngest daughter, is left. 

The Class, for its part, are delighted to immortalize one of 
their own number in recording these successes, and at the 



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same time add to their fame in rescuing from oblivion one 
more anecdote of the Nation's Idol. A. B. and A. M. 

WILLIAM ENGLISH LUPTON, born at Bridgeton, N. J., 
June 24, 1841, was the son of Stephen and Martha (English) 
Lupton, and died at Nashville, Tenn., in the service of the 
Freedman's Relief Association, June 5, 1864, — as was already- 
made known in the " Record " of 1866-7. 

He was fitted for College at Bridgeton in the West Jersey 
Academy, in which Beach Jones, Sayre, Westcott and W. E. 
Potter received their preparation, and entered our Class in the 
Junior year. His room was 5 West, and he was the December 
editor of the Nassau " Lit." Already about twenty, he had 
been engaged for a couple of years in teaching, and had a 
maturity of appearance unusual to the newly-matriculated 
student. His mind corresponded to this impression ; he had a 
teacher's small care for matters of " standing " and his read- 
ing and stage of general literary culture put him in advance 
of many of us. He was a man of distinctly pious character, 
and had in view the preparation of himself for the ministry 
of the Gospel. But it was ordered otherwise ; he started for 
the Southwest to engage in work and teaching among the 
Freedmen, whose condition was drawing the sympathies of 
many earnest people at the North. Lupton was seized with 
fever at Nashville, and died there, as above stated, almost 
before he had time to reach his field of labor. 

A beautiful eulogium of Lupton, from the pen of his fellow- 
townsman, our also now deceased Classmate, William E. Pot- 
ter, appeared in the Necrological portion of the " Record." 

This Classmate was one of some seven of our College com- 
panions who died in civil life at a very early date, — previous 
to our Triennial gathering; — besides those whose lives were 
sacrificed in the war: — Ballard, in 1862; Holden and John 
Haynie Done, in 1863 ; Dewing and Sutphen, in 1864, and 
McFarlan, who is reported to have fallen victim to consump- 
tion considerably before 1866. The names of six are counted 
as having fallen in the armies, on either side, — viz., Green- 
wood, Hunt, Marks, Merritt, John H. Potter and Reading, a 
number perhaps fewer than most of us had supposed them 



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to be: — (Holden's health was broken in the army, and Dewing 
and Lupton died in service incident to the war, of course, — 
making the total sacrifice in the struggle, nine). 

The Classmates ascertained to have departed since are 
thirty-nine, besides three whose life or death is an uncertainty 
(Albro, Ambrose and Parkhurst) ; — giving a total, including 
these last, of fifty-five, as nearly as possible one-half our total 
number, of one hundred and eleven. A. B. 

JOHN LIND McATEE was born near Smithburg, Wash- 
ington county, Maryland, on June 25, 1841. His parents were 
William Brady McAtee and Anne A. Boyd. His grandfather 
was Thomas McAtee, who with three brothers were soldiers in 
the Revolutionary army. Their forefathers had emigrated from 
Ireland to Maryland in 1640, and with three other families 
built the first Catholic Church in the Colony of Port Tobacco. 
A lady of that family was, in the next century, the mother of 
Archbishop Spaulding, in his day the Primate of the Catholic 
Church in America. His grandmother, Jane Brady McAtee, 
was from the Harrison family and a cousin of William Henry 
Harrison, the " Tippecanoe " of American history. Under her 
influence this branch of the family became Protestants about 
1800. 

His maternal grandfather was Walter Boyd, who likewise 
with three brothers was in the Revolutionary army, and as a 
Lieutenant was in command of Fort Frederick, a frontier post on 
the Potomac, west of Hagerstown. The father of Walter was 
William Boyd, who was a soldier in the Colonial levies, and 
was with Braddock and Washington in the affair of Fort 
Duquesne; — he was the son of that William Boyd, the unfor- 
tunate Earl of Kilmarnock who in the Rebellion of 1745 " went 
out " with the last of the Stuarts to defeat at Culloden, and 
was one of the two Scotch noblemen who lost their lives for it. 
They also lost their estates and this son came to America, 
where he married Charity Talbot, the daughter of a family 
well known in the history of Maryland as well as of Ireland 
and England. The maternal grandmother was Amanda Alli- 
son, a member of the Society of Friends, from Chester county, 
Pennsylvania. 

Our Classmate prepared for College at Academia, a Presby- 



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Terian school in Juniata county, Pa., and at the Episcopal Dioc- 
esan College of St. James, near Hagerstown. He went to 
Princeton in the Autumn of 1858, joining the Class of '62 
at the beginning of their Freshman year ; but his eyesight 
failed completely at the beginning of the second year, and in 
February he went sadly home and to the care of occulists and 
opticians, — for the next sixteen years unable to read a line. 
It soon dawned upon him that his friends and companions 
were moving onward while he was standing still, and he 
returned to Princeton in the Autumn of 1861, where, although 
he was unable to read, he was permitted to join the Class of '63, 
have his name called in the Class Roll and hear the lectures. 

But to listen to others who were able to tell right out in 
the open of what they knew and had learned, while he could 
do nothing, was to him a moderate form of torture; — he broke 
down in health, and at the close of the half-year quit for a 
time the effort to keep up with his Classmates who had sound 
health and eyesight. He bought an estate near Williamsport, 
Maryland, in February, 1870, where he settled, and, October 
6, in that year, married his wife, — Mary Ella MacMurray, 
daughter of John G. and Antoinette MacMurray, of Lansing- 
burgh, N. Y. They have had six children, of whom two were 
lost, — Robert, who died in infancy, and Agnes Jane, who sur- 
vived but five years. Four are living, — Antoinette, John Lind, 
Jr., William Alfred and Lawrence Turnbull, — whose name 
recalls an admired Classmate. 

The eyesight recovered sufficiently in 1875 to enable McAfee 
to do some reading, and he began the study of the Law ; in 
1877 he went to the Maryland University Law Department, 
where he graduated in May, 1878, at the head of his Class. 
In partnership with Hon. Andrew K. Syester, Attorney-Gen- 
eral of the State, he began the practice of Law in Hagers- 
town, but found that his eyes would not bear as yet the strain 
of the reading and work, and he went west. In 1883 he bought 
a cattle ranch in the Indian Territory, and was thus brought 
near to what was to be his field of success. His wife, the 
beloved companion of his life, passed away on the tenth of 
August, 1893. 

His legal knowledge, character and fitness were appreciated, 
and six years later he was appointed by President Cleveland 



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one of the Justices of the Supreme Court of the new Territory 
of Oklahoma, and later by President McKinley he was reap- 
pointed. The influence to which he mainly attributed his 
appointment and reappointment by Executives of opposite 
policy was that of two Princeton friends, Hon. George Gray 
and Hon. John K. Cowen ; — possibly the prophetic instinct, 
which enabled Mr. Cleveland to apprehend a Princeton man 
on Senator Gray's introduction, and inspired Mr. McKinley 
on the other hand to know his man when having made a 
record which testified, Mr. Cowen told him of it. The appoint- 
ment was in each case unanimously confirmed by the Senate. 
Mr. Atee's opinions as a Justice of that Bench are found 
in volumes two to eleven, inclusive, of the "Oklahoma Supreme 
Court Reports." 

Judge McAtee approved heartily of President McKinley's 
policy with reference to the Philippines and the accompanying 
issues upon finance, expansion and the new prosperity, which 
he was called upon to defend in a debate on " Imperialism " 
before the Bar Association of Oklahoma, in January, 1900. 
This drew attention to him, and he was designated by Mr. 
McKinley to represent the side of the administration on public 
occasions, and at the President's request he set forth his views 
in a debate on the subject before the National Catholic Sum- 
mer School at Detroit, in August, 1900. He was also invited 
by the President, a fortnight before his death, to deliver the 
Annual Address on Memorial Day, May 30, 1903, at Arlington. 

Our Classmate writes : " The most deeply-seated impres- 
sions which he has of his association with Princeton are of 
the deep, quick, tender, unceasing devotion of dear Doctor 
McLean to the welfare of the students, and his sympathy for 
them when in sickness, trouble or distress, of which he had 
realising experience, — and he records gratefully the benevo- 
lent recollection which inspired the good old President to 
decorate the subject of this sketch with the honorary title of 
Master of Arts, when he knew that the only qualification which 
he had for it was a disappointed love for learning, — which he 
did in 1868. He remembers with gratitude the care and con- 
stant devotion of good Dr. Wycoff in a long sickness there. 

" The laying of the first Atlantic Cable was celebrated on 
the Campus in September of 1859, the speakers standing on 



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the steps of Old North. He remembers the eloquence of 
Stephen Alexander as he told of the time when Joseph Henry 
stretched the first telegraph wire from the old Museum on 
the east side to the Recitation Halls on the west of the Cam- 
pus, and sent over it the first telegraphic message ever known 
to the world. The old professor declared in a voice that 
trembled with emotion, as he claimed that the invention be- 
longed to Henry and not to Morse : ' These eyes have seen, 
these ears have heard! ' for in his presence Professor Henry 
explained to Professor Morse the principle of the electro- 
magnet as he employed it, while standing together at one end 
of that wire. His slender frame quivered, and his high falsetto 
voice penetrated to the remotest limits of the old Campus as 
he flung out his indignant tones in defence of his friend. 
It was a thrilling incident ; he wonders who else remembers 
it. He thinks it was the first time he had ever seen a man 
inspired to high eloquence. He got a deep impression that a 
great wrong had been done to Professor Henry, and that the 
high-souled man before him was trying, as the occasion would 
permit, to redress it." McAtee was not able to study much at 
College, but has always thought that his experience there 
broadened his mind and liberalized his character. One of his 
inspirations was to hear the great Arnold Guyot, founder of 
modern geography, in his lectures upon his own Science ; — 
and how could it but be a powerful inspiration to a young 
mind to see and hear, in the walks and groves, the halls and 
Churches of the old College and town, such men as Charles 
Hodge and the Alexanders, — Joseph Addison, Colonel Will- 
iam C, and sometimes coming over from New York Dr. James 
W. Alexander, and others who in those days made Princeton 
famous and great for its learning and patriotism, its modera- 
tion of view, its eloquence and wisdom. He has only grateful 
impressions and memories of the noble place and of the dear 
friends who survive there, Professors Cameron and Orris in 
the College Faculty, and Professor De Witt of the Seminary, 
whose genial disposition and sunny nature were much in evi- 
dence in the days when gaiety and cheerfulness flung round 
our youth their magic spells ! 

It was a great pleasure to be told in after years, by no less 
experienced and able a judge and critic of men than Alexander 



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H. Stephens, the Vice-President of the Southern Confederacy, 
that he " had observed the public men educated at Princeton 
College all his life, and that they were of a very marked type; 
— that for sound, practical wisdom and patriotism, and for 
devotion to the welfare of their country, together with the 
wise moderation and conservatism of their views, he regarded 
the men educated at Princeton as superior to those of any 
other school or College in the country." He mentioned many 
names of Princeton men whom he had known, as examples 
of this estimate, whose characters he felt proved the truth of 
what he said. Of these are remembered William H. Craw- 
ford and Senators Berrien and Iverson, of Georgia, and James 
Chesnut, of South Carolina, Princeton men and names dis- 
tinguished in the South before the Civil war. 

Hon. A. M. 1867. 

CLAY McCAULEY may well be called the Class Traveller 
or Sinbad the Sailor, besides much more, highly creditable to 
us. He writes : " I wish I could take time to tell the Fellows 
my strange story. Not often has there been so varied and 
adventurous a life safely lived. No part of it was deliberately 
sought; it all just came. Now, as I enter old age, I am 
mooring in a sort of Snug Harbor for quiet and, I hope useful, 
work." Born at Chambersburg, Pa., May 8, 1843, b y tne time 
he reached College many scars on face, hands and legs told of 
early experiences extraordinary and perilous ; and, in fact, his 
repute was that of a leader of other boys into mischief, but 
he was " never mean." His travels have led him to " every 
part of the United States, five times across the Atlantic, and 
six times across the Pacific ; twice through the Gulf of Mex- 
ico, all along the east coast of Asia, from Vladivostok to 
Singapore, and once around the world." In Manila, just before 
the outbreak of our war with Spain, he " became notorious 
through his letters to the Boston ' Transcript ' on the Philip- 
pines question," his attitude being " opposed to the whole 
business because of inside knowledge." In Japan for eleven 
years, in China five times, " one of my most interesting and 
important experiences was several months in the Everglades 
of Florida, working up a monograph on the Seminole Indians." 
(Published in 1884 by the Smithsonian.) His " best literary 



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achievement is a Grammar of Japanese and translation of the 
' Hundred Classical Poems ' of Japan." (Asiat. Soc. '98.) 

He attributes his adventurous and intellectual traits largely 
to the McCauleys, his aesthetic predilections to the Maxwells, 
his mother's side. Both houses were Scotch-Irish of mingled 
Highland and Lowland stock, who immigrated in 1730. They 
held soldiers' warrants for land in northeast Ohio and in 
Arkansas, for service in the Wars of 1776 and 1812. Being 
an only son, this Classmate was not expected to stray far, and 
after preparation at Chambersburg Academy he entered Dick- 
inson College, near his home ; but he soon looked further 
afield, in 1861 joining us as Junior, but receiving his A. B. with 
the Class of '64 and A. M in course. Mixing music and 
religion, philosophy and fun, he bothered Alexander and Duf- 
field with speculative problems in piety, but acknowledges 
most sympathy and relief from Guyot. His purpose to study 
for the ministry was postponed by the call of the country in 
1862, when he enlisted as private in the 126th Pennsylvania 
Regiment. He rose to Serjeant, Ordnance Serjeant of the 
Second Division, Ninth Army Corps, and Lieutenant in Com- 
pany D, 126th, was captured at Chancellorsville, May 3, 1863. 
He was at Second Bull Run, South Mountain, Antietam, White 
Sulphur Springs and Fredericksburg. His obituary, finally, 
was published in the Nassau " Lit." Sed non obitus est, he 
was yet much alive, and ready to begin to see the world. 
Starting by way of a theological course at Allegheny and the 
Seminary of the Northwest at Chicago, conviction ultimately 
drew him into sympathy with the Unitarian persuasion. 

McCauley's work led him to Japan, where he was a Pro- 
fessor in the Keiagijiku University and President of Senshin 
Gakuin (College of Advanced Learning), in which he did a 
work described in a recent " History of Unitarianism " as a 
" monument to his name." 

He married, July 25, 1867, Miss Annie Cleveland Deane, of 
Bangor, Me., who died at Minneapolis in 1887, leaving no 
children, but after a married life, of which he writes, " I would 
if I dared be entirely free, tell my Classmates of the rare com- 
panionship that was mine by marriage; — an enviably happy 
life, and this not speaking in the way of customary or con- 
ventional eulogy." 



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As to literary work, McCauley has accomplished a good 
deal ; he says : " My books are several ; other writings of all 
sorts, from petty verse to orations magniloquent, newspaper 
articles by the score, lectures by the dozen, and," he adds, 
" I have been a continuous platform speaker and tenant of 
pulpits." See " Who's Who in America." At present minister 
of Bell Street Chapel, Independent, Providence, R. I. 

A. B. '64 and A. M. 

JAMES SHARON McCOY, after some years of happy 
labor in the pastorate of the Presbyterian Church, was driven 
from this work by impaired health. He then devoted himself 
successfully to economic engineering and the financing and 
development of a number of valuable inventions. 

Born at Mercersburg, Franklin county, Pennsylvania, Sep- 
tember 1, 1842, his parents were Abram Smith McCoy and 
Harriet Newall Sharon, both of Scotch-Irish ancestry. 

He prepared for Princeton College at Wittenberg College, 
Springfield, Ohio, to which vicinity the family had removed 
in 1850, and he entered our Class a Junior, in September, 1861, 
rooming at 9 West. After graduating he read Law for a time, 
and spent the last year of the war in the Naval service with 
the Mississippi Squadron aboard the Juliette, a tin-clad, and 
the Louisville, one of the iron-clads. 

In the fall of 1865 he went to the Theological Seminary at 
Princeton, took three years, and graduated ; was a licentiate 
preacher under the Presbytery of Elizabeth with Littell, Shel- 
don and J. R. Campbell, and was ordained by Huron Presby- 
tery. In 1868 he started out to try his gifts in a Church of 
some importance at Yellow Springs, Ohio, the seat of Antioch 
College. In 1871 he was called to Sandusky, where he passed 
three successful years. Chronic insomnia ensued, by which 
he was completely disabled. He then went into active busi- 
ness, and during two years built up a profitable Insurance 
Agency. Having partially restored his health, he accepted a 
call to the Presbyterian Church in Sacramento, California, 
but after five months' effort was obliged to abandon the work 
by a return of his nervous affection. He then repurchased his 
insurance business in Sandusky, but after two years, finding 
his health still unrestored, seeking in the arid West decided 



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change of work and climate, he raised the capital and went to 
Arizona to construct a system of water works for the supply 
of the town of Tombstone and the contiguous mines. Water 
was selling at six cents per gallon. An adequate supply could 
be found only in the canons of the Huachuca Mountains, 
twenty-five miles distant. This water, under a head of 1,958 
f ee t } — the greatest in the world — was brought to Tombstone 
in lap-welded, wrought iron pipes, amid strikes of outlaw 
workmen and the raids of Apache Indians, and in face of the 
adverse opinion of hydraulic experts. The line was run under 
the San Pedro River and raised again 1,000 feet, where the 
water was reservoired, 365 feet above the town. He operated 
these works as Managing Director for six months after their 
completion, and at the end of this short period they were earning 
net six per cent, on the cost. He also built some houses and 
store buildings, and developed some mining interests profitably. 

As an incident, while returning from one of the mines, in 
company with an U. S. Surveyor, MacCoy was met by two 
mounted cowboys, one of whom was evidently drunk. They 
stopped his team, and the drunken cowboy handed the surveyor 
a bottle of whiskey requiring him to drink. Both of 
the gentlemen, being temperate, expressed thanks, but declined 
the pleasure, which seemed to offend the other and more sober 
outlaw, who said to his companion, fiercely: "Give me that 
bottle of whiskey." He handed it to the surveyor, and at the 
same time drew out a very ugly-looking six shooter. Inas- 
much as the two temperate gentlemen did not have as much 
as a penknife for defense, they concluded to be " discreet." 
Some one sent a sketch of this scene to the New York Police 
Gazette, in which it was published, happily without identifica- 
tion of our Classmate in the character of a moderate drinker! 

The town of Tombstone, during MacCoy's stay, increased 
in population from 300 to 7,000, composed largely of the scum 
of creation. Murder and robbery became frequent. Life and 
property were constantly menaced, and even the officials, 
Sheriff, Deputy Sheriff and Deputy United States Marshal, 
were closely affiliated to the outlaws, by whom MacCoy was 
rated as a " Tenderfoot " and a coward. When things had 
become unendurable, the Governor of the Territory was in- 
vited to Tombstone, and appointed a committee of twelve to 



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raise and equip a company of Rangers for the purpose of 
exterminating the outlaws. In the midst of its work this com- 
mittee, of which MacCoy was one, discovered that there was 
a Judas among them, who betrayed their movements, and 
accordingly, all the power of the committee was vested in an 
Executive Sub-Committee of three, our Classmate being one 
of the three. His duty in this critical time called for more 
"sand " than an ex-preacher was supposed to possess, but in due 
season authority enforced respect and order was restored. 

With health re-established by three years in Arizona, he 
came to New York, and in 1885 and 1886 made the invention 
known as " The Pneumatic Tool," which is really an auto- 
matic mallet and chisel driven by compressed air, operated 
usually in the hand of the workman. It is now of world-wide 
utility, being used for carving, lettering, tracing and other 
ornamental work in marble, granite and other stones, in caulk- 
ing boilers, beading flues in boilers, caulking iron-clad vessels, 
rivetting, chipping in all metal work, etc. Nearly all the 
White Squadron and merchant vessels built during the last 
fifteen years have been caulked with McCoy's Pneumatic 
Tool. He subsequently invented the only practical machine 
for surfacing granite, which also has come into general use. 
This machine, slightly modified, he has introduced success- 
fully for scaling armor plate in nearly all the establishments 
in the world in which armor plate is made. 

He also bought, perfected and introduced the invention 
known as the Standard Time Stamp, a device in general use 
in hotels, offices and factories, for making a printed record of 
the current moment. The device is automatic from the cur- 
rent minute up to and including February of leap year. 

He has recently bought and perfected what he is going to 
call " The Fireless Cooker." This has been pronounced per- 
fect by the greatest authorities of the New York Cooking 
Schools, but has not yet been given to the general public. It 
was entertainingly described to the Class Historian during a 
delightful meeting after the separation of so many years. In 
a word, McCoy has been instrumental in giving gratifying 
proof, — of which our Classmate Westcott was another excel- 
lent example, — of the capability of talents and enterprise con- 
secrated to the sacred work of the Gospel, being successfully 



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applied to the practical ends of the most common sense kinds 
of business, when providentially diverted from that channel 
of effort, and forced into the fields of competition with original 
business minds. A practical engineer, who visited Tomb- 
stone, when asked who constructed that system of water 
works, replied : " Why, he is an ex-preacher, but he is d — d 
smart." 

McCoy married in 1871 and has one son. He resides in 
New York City, and may be found by the Classmate visiting 
New York at his office overlooking the Worth monument in 
Madison Square, No. 1122 Broadway, — where any such way- 
farer will be sure of a hearty welcome and some good stories 
of a life of varied experience, and will have a pleasant revival 
of recollections of the good old days. A. B. and A. M. 

The writer is just in receipt of cards for the marriage reception, 
June 22, of Susan Stewart, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Clinton 
Viles, Cumberland street, Boston, to Dr. William Edward Mac- 
Coy. They are to be at home in Harvard street, Brookline, in 
October. The congratulations of the Class ! 

A. McFARLAN, our aborigine member, was of the Choc- 
taw nation, Indian Territory, an Indian of pure blood, prob- 
ably; a fairly intelligent man, but nowise remarkable, yet of 
a very good spirit. He pursued his preparatory studies at 
Lawrenceville, entered Freshman, and disappeared at the end 
of the Sophomore year, in the midst of the war excitement. 
He roomed by himself, at No. 9 Refectory. He was reported 
in 1866, on the authority of Stryker, to have died of consump- 
tion already a " long time ago." Dilligent inquiry in the 
Indian Territory has developed no trace of him. 

JOSEPH DEAKINS McGUIRE, born at Washington, D. 
C, November 26, 1842, was trained in private schools in his 
early youth, and later took four years at Georgetown College. 
He entered with the Class, and left Princeton April 20, 1861. 
He studied French and German in Europe from June, that 
year, till August, 1864, the last six months attending classes 
at the Agricultural Academy of Gross Hohenheim in Wur- 
temburg. From 1864 to 1900 he made his home on his estate 
near Ellicott City, Maryland. He studied Law and was ad- 



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mitted to the Bar in 1877 ; and from 1884 to 1900 was State's 
Attorney for Howard county, in the State above named. In 
1901 he received the degree of A. M. from Princeton. 

McGuire writes the Class Historian (and sculptor) : " Your 
name in BIG letters I often look at on my Class cane, — which 
when I hereafter look at will remind me more of the dead 
than of the living, I fear. There are few of the old lot whom 
I have ever encountered since leaving old Nassau. The Col- 
lege itself I have not seen until year before last, when I went 
there to get my A. M., which was a pleasure to me more as 
entitling me to consider myself as of the Class than for any 
other reason." 

Mr. McGuire was married in December, 1886, to Anna Chap- 
man, and has two children, a son, James C. McGuire, civil 
engineer, a graduate of Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, 1888, 
and a daughter, Mary Madison McGuire. 

He has devoted much time to the study of Archaeology, 
and has published various articles in the " American Anthro- 
pologist," etc. ; he is author of " Primitive Methods of Drills 
and Drilling " (in "Annual Report of U. S. National Museum 
for 1894"), and "Pipes and Smoking Customs of the Ameri- 
can Aborigines " (ditto, 1897). At present living in Wash- 
ington, 1834 Sixteenth street, N. W. 

Charles W. McAlpin, Secretary of the Alumni, writes from 
Princeton that, according to the Minutes of the Trustees, McGuire 
received an honorary A. M. in 1901 (subsequently to the issue of 
the last General Catalogue), and was "restored to his Class;" 
which means that his name be placed with the other members of 
the Class of '63, as having received A. B. in that year. He fur- 
ther explains that, as a rule, of course, the Honorary A. M. does 
not carry with it the degree of A. B. (A man may be already an 
A. B. of another College, as was Kirkpatrick, of Union). The 
A. M. in course, however, presupposes the Bachelor's degree. 

Inman, thus, received the Honorary degree of A. M. in 1886, 
but there is no record of his receiving the Bachelor's degree. 
Neither did S. Beach Jones, Hon. A. M. '81, receive his Bachelor's 
degree from Princeton. Toadvine had Hon. A. B. in '64, and 
Hon. A. M. '68. Jacobus, somehow was graduated with the 
Class of '64, and received his degree of A. M. in course. The 



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action of the Trustees seems not to be in accordance with any- 
fixed rule, and the Class Historian realizes that his treatment of 
this matter has not been consistent, as the result of the inaccura- 
cies of the Catalogue and his own ignorance. Hon. A. M. 1901. 

JASPER SCUDDER McILVAINE, our First Honor man 
at graduation, devoted his life with entire unreserve to the 
good of China in the work of a missionary, and died at the height 
of his usefulness at the Capital city of Shan Tung in 1881. 

He was born at the family place, " Emerson," at Ewing in 
the northern suburbs of Trenton, N. J., May 21, 1844. He 
was the son of William Rodman Mcllvaine, Judge of the 
Court of Common Pleas of Mercer county, of a family of great 
antiquity in Scotland, and Christiana Scudder, his wife, who 
was of English people identified with Princeton. This name 
forms the link of a certain family connection between several of 
our Classmates. Reeder says, in answer to an enquiry, " I was 
not related to Mcllvaine, but for about a hundred and fifty years, 
my family and the Scudder family seem to have formed a habit 
of intermarrying, and Mcllvaine's mother was a Scudder. Sam 
Stryker's grandmother, as I remember, was Lucretia Scudder, 
sister of Col. William Scudder; and the wife of Rev. Eli F. 
Cooley, pastor at Ewing, College Trustee, and earlier of Cherry 
Valley, was Hannah, his daughter. Mcllvaine's mother was of 
the same family, but not of the same branch." The Mcll- 
vaines derived through, 1, Edward Shippen and Esther 
(Rodman) Mcllvaine; 2, Dr. William, Surgeon in the Revo- 
lution, educated in Medicine at Edinburg, who married Mary, 
daughter of Hon. Edward Shippen, Chief Justice of Pennsyl- 
vania ; and 3, William and Anne (Emerson) Mcllvaine, the 
first of the name in America, a founder of the Philadelphia 
assemblies and one of the first Elders of the Presbyterian 
Church there. The intermarriages were with the English 
families of the Earl of Westmoreland and of the " Downright 
Shippen " of Pope. A charter for a large tract of land in 
America was given by James V. to Allane Mcllvaine in 1529, 
which Queen Mary confirmed to his son Gilbert in 1546, and 
it was to take possession of these lands that William came 
across the sea. 

Jasper Mcllvaine prepared in Trenton and Lawrenceville, 



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entered Sophomore, and graduated with the first honors as 
Latin Salutatorian, and with the cordial esteem of every man 
in the Class. He was an Editor of the Nassau " Lit; " with 
others he was instrumental in arousing a religious interest 
which stirred the whole College and affected many for life. 
After leaving College he taught a year at Bridgeton, and 
entered the Seminary in 1864, whence he did not graduate, 
however, till 1868, owing to weakness of the eyes which 
took him for a sojourn in North Carolina. 

His sacred bent carried him to Missionary work in the 
great Empire of China, whose awakening we are beholding 
to-day. Under appointment by the Presbyterian Board he 
proceeded to Peking, where he was stationed for three years, 
acquiring the language and engaged in necessary preliminary 
work. His longing was to " preach the gospel in the regions 
beyond," and with a single native attendant he pushed to the 
interior of Shan Tung province and to the Capital, Tsi Nan Fu 
(Chinanfoo), on the great Hwang Ho, " China's Sorrow." His 
strong mental grasp soon made him proficient in the language, 
and he became known as one of the best Chinese scholars 
among our men. In his thoroughgoing way he adopted the 
native dress and mode of living, devoting great endeavors 
to famine relief, to which he gave richly of his private means, 
winning deep gratitude and veneration. " He exhibited a 
wonderful energy and force of will, amounting to an apostolic 
heroism in confronting great and trying duties. During the ter- 
rible famine of 1878-9, resulting from the desolating overflows 
of the remorseless river, he faced great risks and hardships in 
the labor of distributing relief in scenes of suffering, disease 
and death. It was only after long laboring alone that his 
labors saw such success as to vindicate his choice of the field 
at Tsi Nan Fu, and he was reinforced with two missionaries 
and their wives. He produced an immense amount of literary 
current matter, as well as a number of more permanent works, 
including a " Translation of the Epistle to the Hebrews," a Com- 
mentary, and others. While joyously looking upon the prog- 
ress and prospects of his work, he was seized with pneu- 
monia, of which he died at Tsi Nan, not yet thirty-seven, and 
was buried in the grounds of the Chapel transformed from 
the building he had purchased with a personal gift of $5,000. 



Princeton, Sixty-three 111 

The love and appreciation of the people he had so devotedly 
benefited wrote on his coffin : " Holy Teacher, gone to God ! " 
He was a man from first to last of earnestness and capacity, 
of self-abnegation and high, intelligent beneficence. Those 
for whom he gave himself in that strange and distant land 
were wife, children, home, to him, and he sought for himself 
no other ; " one of the noblest, bravest, most self-sacrificing 
missionaries of modern times ! " 

One who made his acquaintance when he was attending the 
Model School at Trenton offers this tribute, — " I recall no 
friend at that period of my life more serious and sincere in 
all his intercourse with his fellows. He subordinated very 
distinctly, at that time, every obligation and pursuit to the 
highest standard of duty, and counted no restraint or sacrifice 
too great in seeking to attain his standard. He did this natur- 
ally, without the appearance of self-restraint, or the slightest 
ostentation. Whatever there may have been of seeming aus- 
terity in his attitude and purpose was always relieved by his 
evident and absolute sincerity. His spiritual life was highly 
developed at an early age. He was personally kind and oblig- 
ing to friends, and to a degree interested in their pursuits and 
pleasures, but I think he considered his highest obligation' to 
each one of them was, to express by example and precept the 
duty of a profession of religion. 

I have never met a man just like him, and as I look back 
through the years and to the period of his young manhood 
when we knew him, I believe his influence in life and character 
was both powerful and permanent. 

In my judgment his qualities of mind and heart would have 
insured him success in almost any pursuit, for with a good! 
mind, he had the hardest staying qualities in work, and the 
finest kind of a conscience." — C. B. Mathews, '64. 

Mcllvaine united with the Church (Trenton First Presby- 
terian), at the age of fourteen. He was a man of the out and 
out Kitchener stamp in the whole field of moral duty and in the 
thoroughness of his diligence and efficiency in the spiritual 
warfare. A. B. and A. M. 

ALGERNON MARCELLUS was a heroic laborer in the 
Christian ministry, though suffering from lifelong impair- 



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ment of health contracted in army service. He was descended 
from Holland Dutch and German ancestry, settled in America 
about 1650. He was the son of Gilbert N. and Sarah E. (Chap- 
man) Marcellus, and was born at Amsterdam, N. Y., March 31, 
1840. 

He decided early to prepare himself for the ministry, — in 
fact made the promise to his mother, who died when he was ten 
years old. He studied Latin grammar at the plough, and later 
finished at the Freehold (N. J.) Institute, where he united with 
the historic Monmouth Church at eighteen. He took the 
four years with us. He taught in the Edge Hill school the 
while, and spent the years from 1863 to 1865 in hard service in 
the army, three and a half years altogether, with intervals 
of business in New York and teaching at the Freehold Young 
Ladies' Seminary. 

The " Record " in its Roll of Honor gives the following as his 
war story. " Private in the Fifty-ninth Regiment, New York 
Volunteers, with the Second Corps he passed through the cam- 
paigns and battles of Fredericksburg, Chancellorsville, Gettys- 
burg and Mine Run. He was appointed Second Lieutenant of 
U. S. Colored Troops, December 29, 1863, and served in New 
Orleans and Pensacola. He served as Staff Officer in various 
capacities and in April, 1865, was promoted Adjutant of the 
Twenty-fifth U. S. Colored Troops. Mustered out December 
14, 1865." 

He studied under Charles Hodge at Princeton a year, enter- 
ing in 1866, a year under Alexander Hodge at Alleghany, and the 
third under the Breckinridges at Danville, Ky. He married, 
January 1, 1867, Louisa Conover of Freehold. Two sons are 
living, — Louis Conover Marcellus, in mercantile business at 
Portland, Ore., aged twenty-nine, married to Alice Smith of Oak- 
land, — who has one daughter, Naomi, six years old. The younger 
son, Marius Breckinridge, M. D., aged twenty-four, was gradu- 
ated 1898, at the Presbyterian College, Albany, Ore., (which is a 
child of Princeton), and at the University, Pa., Medical Dept., 
1903. He is serving at St. Timothy's Hospital, Roxborough, 
Philadelphia, and hopes to practice on the Pacific coast, where, 
at Oakland, his father died, November 26, 1896. 

Marcellus began his ministry in Kentucky, at Hopewell and 
Bethel; but went to Canton as a missionary in 1870, where 



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he suffered from ill health, and returned in 1871. As Principal 
of Plumstead Academy he engaged in teaching and preaching, 
at New Egypt, N. J., where he labored four years. He then 
served churches in Pennsylvania and New York twelve years ; 
teaching in Pittston, Pa., and at Rensselaerville Academy, N. 
Y., when, in 1887, he sought better climate, but found harder 
work, in Oregon. After a year and a half at Snohomish, in 
Washington, he took a field near Oakland, Ore., alternating 
two Sundays there with one each at places nine miles south 
and eighteen north. He was in his pulpit at the latter place 
when he was stricken with paralysis, followed by other 
attacks, till he succumbed, a year and a half after. 

As a husband and father he was a good man, and his service 
as pastor, always in hard fields, was devoted and most labor- 
ious. As a home missionary on the Pacific coast for many 
years, even though very weak physically, he did work that 
our ministers in the East know nothing of. " Should I attempt 
to tell you all concerning this topic, your book would be full. 
His army life was replete with hard experiences, his mini- 
sterial career also, yet he never faltered, and the trouble con- 
tracted in the war followed him through the remainder of his 
life, and finally took from the work a good man, and left in his 
home deep sadness." From letter of Mrs. Marcellus, who re- 
sides at New Egypt, N. J. A. B. and A. M. 

HENRY CLAY MARKS was born in New Orleans, July 
22, 1843, an d was killed at Malvern Hill, July 1, 1862. His 
great grandfather came from England to Charleston before 
the Revolution. His grandfather, Alexander, there born, was 
in the war of 1812, and had two brothers, physicians, Dr. Elias 
of whom mention is made in Harpers' Biog. Diet., and Dr. 
Frederick, who many years before the Civil war conducted a 
young ladies' seminary in Columbia, S. C, and here the father, 
Alexander Marks, was born in 1817. 

The facts of our Classmate's sadly brief career were known 
to us in 1866 and were correctly given in full in the " Record," 
to the following effect : — He prepared at New Orleans in the 
public schools, and had a four years' course in the High 
School ; entered College as a Freshman, and was a Clio, a bril- 
liant, high-spirited student. He left at the winter vacation of 



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i860, and seeing clear signs of the approach of war, did not 
return. He enlisted in the 5th Louisiana, and had arrived 
before Richmond, when he was recalled to take a Lieutenancy 
in the 10th., and proceeded again at once to Virginia in 
August, 1 861. He became Captain, served through the Penin- 
sular campaign under Magruder, and was in the splendid 
retreat to the Chickahominy under Johnston, early in May, 1862. 
At the battle of Malvern he fell, July I, "within forty yards 
of the federal guns," in one of Magruder's terrible charges. 

His brother, Rev. J. N. Marks of Lake Geneva, Wisconsin, 
confirms these facts, and adds, " It is about all that can be said, 
hardly more than a boy, his only career was his year or two 
at Princeton, and not two years in the army. He was my 
senior by two years ; my brother Alexander was in the Class 
ahead of him at Princeton. My wife's two brothers, Robert 
M. and Frank N. Butler, of Natchez, were both at Princeton, 
and left when the war broke out. It may be an item of interest 
to you to know that all of the three survived the four years of 
the war in the Confederate army and sons of Alexander Marks 
and Robert M. Butler served in the Spanish war. I am deeply 
thankful to Mr. Dennis for the kind words he wrote, — in the 
' Record,' — about my brother, in which occurs the sentiment 
you cite : ' The sooner as a nation or as individuals we bury 
the bitterness and the strife, and all but the chastened experi- 
ence of these four hostile years, the better it will be for us as 
friends and as countrymen.' I have lived to hear a Western 
audience cheer the name of R. E. Lee with those of Lincoln 
and Grant. Several years ago I was asked to write an Ode for 
Memorial Day, of part of which I enclose a copy" 

The Class will be gratified to see these stanzas : 

SONG OF THE BLUE AND GRAY. 

BY REV. J. N. MARKS, 
Of Lake Geneva, Wisconsin. 
Thank God for this day, when the Blue and the Gray 

Stand shoulder to shoulder again, 
As under old Glory they tell the same story 
Of Cuba, and men of the Maine ! 

Together they stand, a gallant, brave band 

Of patriots loyal and true, — 
One country again ! — shall be the refrain, 

To fight for the red, white and blue. 



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The strife of the years has passed, with its tears, 

While heroes recall the sad story : — 
As they fought bravely then, so united again 

They '11 fight for the fame of Old Glory. 

From Atlantic's broad sweep to Pacific's far deep, 

From Maine to the Gulf's crested shore, 
The legions are forming, all enemies storming, 

To prove we are brothers once more. 

Thank God for this day, when the Blue and the Gray 

Have buried the strife of the past ; 
For the Union once more, with the Flag as of yore 

Through the ages our nation shall cast. 

Harry Marks, as his brother writes, " was just twenty-one 
days short of nineteen years of age when he was killed." As 
we look back from this time upon that colossal war, the head- 
long sacrifice and prodigal waste of young, eager life seem 
inexplicable and incredible. 

WILLIAM W. MERRITT was a Union soldier in the 6oth. 
Illinois regiment of Volunteers, and died at Tuscumbia, Ala., 
August 13, 1862, about half a year after his enlistment. 

He was the brother of Rev. James Long Merritt, (Wash. 
Coll., Pa., '59) who was in the Seminary at Princeton while we 
were in College. He was born April 12, 1840 on a farm in 
Belmont county, Ohio, two miles west of Bellaire, andf 
remained at home till the fall of 1858, when he went to the 
Academy at Washington, O., and attended school two years. 
He joined us at the commencement of the Soph. year. He is 
said to have been an apt scholar from his youth ; his mother 
used to say that William could answer all the questions of the 
Shorter Cathechism when he was seven years of age. His 
mother was Eveline, daughter of Hugh Milligan, an Elder in 
the Presbyterian Church at Forks of Wheeling on the " pan 
handle " of West Virginia. His father, Robert Merritt, was 
born near Falling Waters in Berkeley county, now in West 
Virginia, and was brought to Ohio when nine months old ; 
and it was early in his life that took place the great revival of 
religion which originated in this locality which had such wide- 
spread effects upon the religious development of the new 
states of the opening West. Robert Merritt became a member 
of the ancient and historic Rock Hill Church, adjacent to Bel- 



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laire, of which for some thirty years of his later life he was an 
Elder. Thus on both sides this Classmate was from godly 
ancestry, and it was with a view to preparation for the Minis- 
try that he embarked in his studies. He was a member of this 
Church. He was of a peculiarly smiling and agreeable, yet 
unassuming disposition. He left College, as he thought, for 
a time, in June, 1861 ; and that Autumn made a visit to Illinois, 
where he taught a school for a few months. His entrance into 
the service of his country followed early in that Winter, and he 
remained in the service for the short period which ensued till 
called to rest from his labors. Like so many of the poor fel- 
lows, he was a victim to typhoid fever. 

The middle letter of the name was not an initial, but was 
adopted for the sake of distinction after he entered school. 
Our Classmate was the first of his family to go, and his death 
was a great grief ; father, mother, and all his sisters and 
brothers were left behind to mourn their loss in the abrupt 
taking off of this bright, promising one of the flock, — a mourn- 
ing not without hope in the case of one so true and good. 

Acknowledgments are due for aid in obtaining the above, 
after much search, to Rev. Wilhelm Van den Berge Te Winkel 
(Princ. '96), of the Second Church, Bellaire, and to Mr. Hugh 
Milligan Merritt, of Bellaire, brother of our Classmate. 

JOHN ROBBERTS MILLER. I was born at Dickinson, 
Cumberland County, Pennsylvania, January 2, 1841. My early 
life covered pretty nearly all the field usually laid out for a 
boy, so you can embellish this part of your sketch of my life 
with almost anything that occurs to you as fitting to a well- 
fed lad. My parents' names were Andrew G. and Eleanor 
(Umberger) Miller. My earliest ancestors, Christian Miller 
and Heinrich Umberger came to this country in the years 1730 
and 1733, and settled in Lancaster County. About the year 
1770, both branches of the family came to Cumberland County, 
and here established themselves in various occupations. An- 
drew Miller, my great -great -grandfather, was a Lieuten- 
ant in Col. Ben. Chambers' regiment during the Colonial 
period, and fought the Indians and French in this section, and 
I have no doubt, at times, from old Fort Louther which stood 
upon the very ground where I now write. All of my great 



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grandfathers were participants in the Revolutionary War. The 
family was also represented in the Wars of 1812, and the 
Mexican War. During the Civil War, I hung around the edges 
of the scene enough to know that war was going on, and satis- 
fied myself that I couldn't have settled it alone ; my brother, 
however, Captain Wm. E. Miller, of the 3rd Pennsylvania 
Cavalry, attained some distinction especially in a cavalry 
charge at Gettysburg, which won for him an honorary medal 
from Congress. During the late Spanish War, my son and 
only surviving child, Hugh R. Miller, served as a Lieutenant 
in the Tenth U. S. Infantry, and spent nearly two years in 
Cuba. He was the first American officer to lead troops into 
the City of Havana, being practically the military Guard of 
the City for twenty-four hours before the arrival of any other 
troops. 

I was fitted in the Dickinson and Shippensburg Academies, 
entering Jefferson College in the Fall of 1859. At the outbreak 
of the war, I transplanted myself for vegetation at Princeton. 
You are so familiar with my history there that I scarcely 
know what I could add to what you can write, — and then too, 
you can do it from an unprejudiced standpoint. I may say 
briefly, however, that I had a good bit of fun at Princeton, 
which largely accounts for my not standing first in the Class. 
It was my good fortune to attend all the Class re-unions, 
except the last, i. e., '73, '83 and '93, and it was circumstances 
beyond my control, alone, that prevented my being there last 
year. 

My life since leaving college had been devoted to making an 
honest living off of the wrecks of other men's fortunes, — other- 
wise called practicing law, and I am still out of jail. This 
business has been quietly conducted at Carlisle, Penn. Since 
my admission to the Bar in 1866, taking it altogether, I have 
no kick coming against the world. I have neither poverty nor 
riches, and I am not running around hunting trouble. 

I married, January 7, 1873, Miss Caroline O. Rankin, daugh- 
ter of the late Dr. William Rankin of Shippensburg, Penn. Of 
our two children, our daughter died in infancy. My son now 
twenty-seven, took a course at Dickinson College and gradu- 
ated at the Law School there, and was admitted to the Bar 
previous to his entering the military service, but neither mili- 



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tary or law seem to be to his liking, his talent is for music, 
and he is now with one of the leading Opera Companies. 

The only public function I ever exercised was as Mayor of 
Carlisle for four or five years, during which time I managed a 
population of ten or twelve thousand people, a thousand In- 
dians here, at our well known school, and five or six hundred 
Dickinson College students, and during that time there was a 
minimum of murders, robberies and debauchery. A. B. 

EDWARD STEWART MOFFAT was born January 5, 
1844, at Oxford, O., where his father, at the time, was a Pro- 
fessor in Miami University. He was the son of Rev. Dr. James 
Clement Moffat of the Princeton Class of 1835, and Professor 
successively in the College and Seminary, whose birthplace 
was at Glencree, Scotland, where he began life as a shepherd 
boy and printer and self-taught linguist. His mother was 
Ellen Stewart of Easton, Pa., where also Dr. Moffat was Pro- 
fessor in Lafayette College in his early life. 

Our Classmate prepared at Princeton with Pumyea, Young 
and the Dones, in Mr. Schenck's school, entered Freshman and 
graduated with the Class, although he left to take part in the 
war in the Fall of 1861. He enlisted in Co. K, Ninth New 
Jersey Infantry, October 15, and was appointed First Ser- 
geant. He served with Casey's Division at the Defences of 
Washington, and with Reno's Brigade in the Burnside expedi- 
tion at the capture of Roanoke Island. At the battle of New- 
bern, March 14, 1862, he was promoted Second Lieutenant, but 
declined ; in May being reappointed at Fort Macon. Detailed, 
in September, 1862, as Acting Signal Officer, he accompanied 
Foster's Goldsboro expedition in that capacity, and later the 
Port Royal expedition, under Heckman. In March, 1863, he 
was commissioned Second Lieutenant in the Signal Corps, 
and was in command of the outpost line of Stations in North 
Carolina, where with five hundred of the One Hundred and 
Thirty-second New York he resisted Pickett with 7,000 men 
and several batteries, and saved Newbern from recapture; for 
which gallantry he was publicly thanked. Here he rode into 
a rebel regiment, and preferring risk to capture escaped amid a 
shower of bullets. In September, 1864, he was acting Chief 
Signal Officer in North Carolina, and survived an attack of 



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yellow fever at Newbern. He was Signal Officer at General 
Meade's headquarters, February, 1865, and was at Hatcher's 
Run and Fort Stedman, at the capture of Petersburg and 
Sailor's Creek. Finally he was present at Appomattox on 
Lee's surrender. The Pennsylvania Commandery of the Loyal 
Legion in setting forth the record of his army career, of which 
the above is but the substance, adds that as in the College so 
in the army, " He was noted for his graceful bearing and 
courtly manners, and when he left his regiment to take a posi- 
tion in the Signal Corps, in which he rose to prominence, his 
loss was keenly felt by all. He had the high esteem of all the 
men under him ; in battle he was entirely self possessed and 
on the march capable of great fatigue." 

The war over, he took a three years' course at the Columbia 
College School of Mines in New York and soon received a call 
to the post of Professor of Mining and Metallurgy in Lafayette 
College, where his father had been a professor before him. 
Two years later partial failure of health compelled him to seek 
less sedentary work, and he took the management of blast 
furnaces at Port Oram and at Stanhope, N. J., where his suc- 
cess in the practical details of his profession made him known, 
and in 1882 he went to Scranton as Manager of the furnaces of 
the Lackawanna Iron and Steel company, of which he became 
General Manager, and in 1892 President, which position he 
held at the time of his death. He was a most conscientious 
worker, combining the whole range of theoretical knowledge 
with intimate experience in the unwritten niceties of practice, 
and his attractive courtesy and affability put him on excellent 
terms with his employees. 

Professor Moffat married Anna R. McCartney, daughter of 
Hon. Washington McCartney of Easton, who with four chil- 
dren survives him, residing at Scranton. He went to Europe 
for his health, but without the desired result, and died at Edin- 
burg, August 4, 1893. A. B. and A. M. 

ALBERT H. MORDECAI, M.D., was from Columbia, S. 
C, where he has a sister, Miss Cornelia Mordecai. He entered 
Freshman and left in the early part of the Sophomore year, 
and was reported to have served in the Southern army, but 
in 1866 had not been heard from. He graduated in Medicine 



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at Philadelphia, married, and settled as a physician in Balti- 
more. The address some years ago was 400 North Calvert 
street. No word has been received from Dr. Mordecai, who is 
said to have a son in Keyport, N. J. A. Mr. Henry Mordecai, 
perhaps a connection, is in New Orleans, in business. 

Mordecai is understood to have been of one of the able Hebrew 
families anciently settled in the Carolinas and Georgia, of whom 
much that is patriotic and public-spirited is recorded; who served, 
as well as gave splendidly, in the Revolution, and have been well 
represented in every national crisis since. Dr. Madison C. 
Peters, in his " Justice to the Jew," states that Major Alfred 
Mordecai, born in North Carolina in 1800, is among those of 
this stock who " left valuable evidence of their patriotism in the 
Mexican war," and that "Major Mordecai is a recognized au- 
thority in the military world, in the field of scientific research, 
and in the practical application of mechanical deduction to war 
uses. His son and namesake has been an Instructor at West 
Point." It would be gratifying to know that our Classmate is a 
connection of this fine soldier. 

WILLIAM RUSSELL MURRAY was from Harrisburg, 
Penn., a son of Judge Murray of that city. He entered the 
Class at Princeton in the Sophomore year, and is remembered 
favorably, was a good student, a companionable associate and 
a man of evidently gentlemanly antecedents. He took his 
degree of Bachelor of Arts with us in due course, but there is 
on the Catalogue nothing to indicate that he pursued a regu- 
lar professional course such as was usual to entitle him to the 
Arts degree. His address is given as at Harrisburg at the time 
of the Triennial, but he had not been heard from. 

There is little that the Class Historian is able to communi- 
cate concerning Mr. Murray, beyond the above. He is known 
to have married and had one or more children. Our Class- 
mate VanCleve reports that he met him at Carlisle, Pa., a 
great many years ago. He lived there then, and was a lawyer, 
and Alumni Secretary McAlpin says " A lawyer." Miller, 
however, states that he never lived in Carlisle, and says, " I 
don't believe he ever studied Law." It is learned that he was 
some years ago in Philadelphia industriously engaged in a 
manufacturing business, (umbrellas), respected and well liked, 



Princeton, Sixty-three 121 

and the Princeton Directory, of 1892, confirms this address. 
He is understood to have removed from Philadelphia to Har- 
risburg; and later his address, as given by the Secretary of 
the Alumni, was Media, in Delaware County, Pa., where he 
died in May, 1896. 

There is a touch of sadness in the note of the Pastor of the 
Presbyterian Church at Media, who, " after much vain en- 
quiry," reported, " I was able to find the undertaker who 
served at the funeral of Wm. R. Murray. No one seems to 
have remembrance of him. He was probably in ill health 
when the family located in this county, one mile out of town, 
and he died soon after." A. B. 

WALTER SMITH NICHOLS in October last received an 
appointment as Special Lecturer on Insurance in Yale Uni- 
versity, and consequently his name now appears on its 
Catalogue as one of the " Officers of Instruction " in that 
institution, a mark of recognition on which we congratulate 
him. 

Nichols says that his business can only be intelligently 
explained by a conglomerate statement: In New York he is 
what is officially known as an actuary; more specifically, he is 
the mathematical and legal adviser of various corporate inter- 
ests, and was formerly Mathematician and Secretary of a Life 
Company. He is also Vice-President of an insurance publica- 
tion company in that city, and in that connection is editor and 
author of various publications on the law and practice of 
insurance. 

Among other honorary and trust positions, he is a member 
of the American Mathematical Society, and of the Actuarial 
Society of America. He has been for many years a Director in 
the Newark Fire Insurance Company, the oldest of its kind in 
New Jersey. In his native city of Newark he is something of a 
landlord and real estate man. Nichols is one of the last of 
the original town farmers of Newark, i. e., holders and cultiva- 
tors of originally granted upland and salt-meadow, farmed 
from the residential town plot as laid out in the first settle- 
ment. His parents were Alexander McWhorter and Hannah 
(Riggs) Nichols. 

So described, Walter was born November 23, 1841, an only 



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son, — accused of wonderful powers of abstraction in his child- 
ish days, he blossomed out in our Freshman year as our first 
honor man in mathematics, " only to drop off into a spell of 
laziness which lasted the rest of his course." He " tried to 
make a lawyer of himself, and pretended to study law, with 
Justice Bradley of the United States Supreme Court, while 
actually engaged in solving various mathematical problems, 
and with rod and gun studying the natural history of fishes 
and birds, until, convinced that he was not called to the Bar, 
he turned his attention to his present profession." 

His only service in the war was on the Provost Marshal's 
Staff, sending other fellows to the front. His published papers 
and addresses on various legal, mathematical and other topics, 
if collected, would make a pretty large volume, " and not be 
worth reading." The most important addresses were deliv- 
ered before the World's Fair Congress at Chicago, and the In- 
ternational Congress of Mathematicians in London. His prin- 
cipal works are on the " Law of Agents," the " Law of Contracts," 
and the " Law of Assignments." So he fished and hunted to 
some purpose in the deeps and thickets of the law. His politi- 
cal offices were Alderman, which he declined, Pilot Commis- 
sioner, which he could not get, and after dinner speaker, from 
which he has retired. To " make up for his personal short- 
comings he points to a Revolutionary Captain as one of his 
ancestors, and to a Commissary as another," and will tell you 
that he is a direct descendant of many of those old New Eng- 
land families who founded the city of Newark in the seven- 
teenth century ; and " going back further still show you his 
genealogical tree running back without a break to the royal 
families of England, Scotland and France, until it reaches 
Charlemagne and Pepin, and will prove to you that he is a 
distant cousin of the King of England, and only escaped being 
seated on the throne of Great Britain because he came down 
through younger sons and daughters," — which to a Republican 
is, of course, no reason at all. His other boast is a family of 
six children, with not a black sheep among them, and one 
already taking a position in the world that has cast his paternal 
into the shade : — children that through their mother are of 
Mayflower stock, and likewise derived from the Jenners of 
Vaccination fame. " As an offset to all this he will whisper 



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that Guy Fawkes of the Gunpowder Plot was also a distant 
relation." 

Mr. Nichols married in 1870, Minnie C. Tompkins, who died 
in 1901, of whom he says, " I have always claimed that mar- 
rying a good wife was the turning point that hinged the criti- 
cal determinations of my life." He has, as a business man, 
continuously served the cause of religion in a number of ways 
in which his varied talents made him available. In the Newark 
Tabernacle Sunday School Association he is a Trustee and 
Secretary, and he is President of the Board of Trustees of his 
ancestral church, the ancient First Presbyterian, where he is in 
close association with our friend of Princeton days, Dr. D. R. 
Frazer — in the Parsonage of which our College had its birth 
under Rev. Aaron Burr ; — a position of important financial 
responsibility, in view of the large landed and other endow- 
ments that have come down with this old Church from early 
days, placing it in a class with the wealthiest religious corpora- 
tions in the country, — property which in recent years has been 
reduplicating in value by leaps, with the sudden appreciation 
of the value of business sites in the centre of the city. He is 
fond of the water and spends much vacation time in his sloop 
on the Atlantic coast. A. B. and A. M. 

THOMAS O'HANLON, see under the H's., as if Thomas 
Hanlon. 

NELSON DANIEL PARKHURST entered the Class in 
the Sophomore year, and was with us to the end of our course. 
He roomed by himself at 15 West, (or 13, according to the 
Catalogue), but in the Senior year at Mr. Andrews'. He was 
from Elizabeth, N. J., the son of Daniel and Maria Parkhurst, 
and was born at Fort Covington, N. Y., — on the Canadian 
line, — February 7, 1842. He fitted at Pearl Cottage Seminary, 
and is reported in 1866 as having studied Law two years in New 
York city, and as at that time practicing in Knoxville, Tenn., 
where, according to " a resident of the place," he was making, 
— in the lingo of our day, — " a perfect Rowl." His address, as 
given in the Princeton " Directory of Alumni " in 1892, was 
Cedar Rapids, Iowa. He left there eight or nine years ago, 
(so we are informed by the postmaster), and the last " Direc- 



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tory " gives as his subsequent address, 261 Calumet Ave., 
Chicago. 

Parkhurst was very much of a gentleman, and the Class 
Historian would very much like to have been able to give a 
fuller account of him. A. B. and A. M. 

JAMES WILSON PATTERSON is a scholar of very 
marked historical and geographical tastes, whose life has been 
largely spent in the pursuit of these favorite studies. He 
shares with Sheldon the distinction among our number of 
writing the letters F. R. G. S. after his name, on which we 
congratulate him, and we accept it modestly as one of the 
proud honors of the Class. He is a fellow of the American 
Historical Society, of the Maryland Historical Society, of the 
Society of Colonial Wars, a member of the Society of the Sons 
of the Revolution, etc. He writes, " I have always been and 
am interested in literature, history and geography, and am a 
life member of the Royal Geographical Society," and he en- 
courages the Class Historian by adding, that he is interested 
in the Book, by wishing him all success in the undertaking, and 
by showing that he is properly hungry for it by asking, 
"When may I hope to receive it?" 

Our Classmate is a close second with McCauley, (and per- 
haps with McGuire), for the post of Class Traveller and Sin- 
bad, for he says, " I have crossed the Atlantic twenty-eight 
times, have travelled extensively, visiting every country in 
Europe, have been in Africa five times, and in Asia Minor." 

He could hardly fail to have a taste for his favorite studies, 
since his family stands in intimate relation to names that have 
been engraved deeper on the scrolls of fame, and hands that 
have made larger alterations in the map of the world, than 
almost any to be found in the whole range of history. His 
aunt, his father's sister Elizabeth, was that beautiful Betsy 
Patterson, who was married in Baltimore, to Jerome Bona- 
parte, the brother of the mighty Napoleon, afterward King of 
Westphalia. His uncle, Robert Patterson, married that one 
of the " Three Caton Belles," who afterwards became the wife 
of the Marquis of Wellesley, Viceroy of India, son of the Earl 
of Mornington and brother of Arthur Wellesley, afterwards 
Duke of Wellington ; — the quiet American family on the 



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Banks of Chespeake Bay thus forming a curious link between 
the two giants in warfare who confronted each other on the 
field of Waterloo. 

Mr. Patterson was born at the family seat, " Roseland," in 
Baltimore county, Maryland. He is of American stock on 
both sides, and he states " My grandfather, William Patter- 
son, fought in the Revolutionary War, and in addition finan- 
cially aided the Colonies in their discouraging struggle with 
the difficulties of raising revenue. My great-great-grand- 
father, Thomas McKim, was an officer in the Delaware con- 
tingent of troops who served in the Indian war of 1755 to 

1763." 

He sat with us in classroom during the four years of our 
college life, and after graduation departed for Europe, where 
he has since spent large portions of his time, exploring 
libraries and visiting the regions of geographical and historic 
interest which attracted him. 

Mr. Patterson married Margaret Sherwood, of New York, 
November 16, 1881. They have one child a daughter, Mar- 
garet Patterson. 

Address, Messrs. Wilson, Colston and Company 216 East 
Baltimore street, Baltimore. A. B. and A. M. 

JOHN WOODBRIDGE PATTON was born in Philadel- 
phia in 1843. His father, Rev. Dr. John Patton, a Presbyterian 
minister and a graduate of Jefferson College, was born in 
Maryland of Scotch-Irish stock ; his mother, a native of Massa- 
chusetts of " Mayflower " descent, bore the beautiful Puritan 
name of Mindwell L. Gould. He took the Freshman year 
in the University of Pennsylvania, in which he now holds his 
chair, and entered Princeton with us as Sophomores. He 
graduated, then taught a log cabin school in Kentucky for a 
year; and after that experience, returned to his native city 
and passed a year in the office of Hon. John C. Bullitt. For an 
interval, in 1865, there was a break-down in health, which 
gave occasion for some variation in his experience, and he 
went to North Carolina as a Paymaster's Clerk. 

Returning he took a short course at the Harvard Law 
School, and was admitted to the Bar of Philadelphia in 1868. 
He practiced law in that city for twenty years. He was 



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afterwards President of the Mortgage Trust Company of Penn- 
sylvania, — remaining, however, in touch with his profession, 
and acting as master, referee and consulting counsel from time 
to time. 

In 1897 Mr. Patton was appointed to the new professorship 
of The Practice of Law in the Law Department of the 
University of Pennsylvania. This is a field in which he 
has met with a degree of success which has been grati- 
fying to those interested in the foundation. Formerly it 
was the almost invariable practice of young men entering the 
profession of law to find a place in the office of some estab- 
lished lawyer or firm, and there acquire the necessary practi- 
cal knowledge. But this has become more and more a privi- 
lege for the few, and it is found that in recent years only a 
small proportion of young lawyers are able to command it, 
to their serious disadvantage and the detriment of the public 
depending upon their services. There was no small doubt 
whether " practice " could be successfully taught ; it was an 
unbroken path and the methods had to be invented. The seven 
years past have shown that it could measurably be done, and 
nearly all the members of Third Year Class now elect that 
course. It may well be understood that such a position affords 
very pleasant opportunities to our Classmate for acquaintance 
and intercourse among a most desirable class of men, and it 
may be said that he is the friend as well as the teacher of the 
students. It has been said in fact, by some Princeton men 
who have studied law at Pennsylvania, that he is " the Dean 
Murray of the University Law School." 

Mr. Patton has taken his part in public affairs. He served 
for nearly five years as member of the City Councils in Phila- 
delphia. He has had a number of offers of nominations for im- 
portant public offices such as Register of Wills, and Judge, 
and has also had proffers of positions of repute in business, 
but in nearly every case has been compelled to decline for a 
reason which seemed at the time to be obligatory. He has 
recently received an honor from the Judges of the Courts of 
Philadelphia which was an absolute surprise, the first intima- 
tion of which came through reading an editorial in the Phila- 
delphia Ledger of January 5, 1904, of which the following is 
an excerpt: 



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" The Board of Judges yesterday elected Professor John 
W. Patton of the Tenth Ward, as a member of the Board of 
Education, and Hon. William Potter, ex-Minister to Italy and 
now President of Jefferson College, as a member of the Board 
of City Trusts. Both appointments will commend them- 
selves to the citizens of Philadelphia as in all respects judi- 
cious, praiseworthy and appropriate. * * * 

" The appointment of Professor Patton to the Board of Edu- 
cation will also be unreservedly approved by the Philadelphia 
public. He has long been a prominent member of the Philadel- 
phia Bar, and is now Professor of Law in the University of 
Pennsylvania. He was elected to Common Council in 1881 
as a Republican, receiving the indorsement of the Citizens' 
Committee of One Hundred. His record in Councils was 
flawless, and his services in the reorganization of the city 
government under the Bullitt bill, upon which he wrote the 
supplemental report, were of the greatest value. His public 
career, experience in scholastic affairs, and personal probity 
and worth are such as fit him to become a very efficient mem- 
ber of the Board of Education. The Board of Judges has 
undoubtedly consulted the public interests in both appoint- 
ments. Membership in the Board of City Trusts and the 
Board of Education is a mark of distinction. In these in- 
stances the appointees will be regarded by common consent as 
worthy of the honor which has been conferred upon them. 
Were citizens as careful in the election of officials in other 
departments of the city government as the Board of Judges 
has been in these instances, the conduct of public affairs would 
furnish no ground for criticism." 

Mr. Patton married, July 8, 1873, Mary Blackiston of Mid- 
dletown, Delaware. Mrs. Patton is a niece of ex-Governor 
Pollock of Pennsylvania, and of the venerable Dr. James Cur- 
tis Hepburn, the distinguished missionary to Japan, both 
Princeton men, the latter of the Class of '32, and perhaps 
now the oldest living graduate. They have two sons and* 
three daughters. " Sixty-three " is much indebted to Patton 
for his warm Class enthusiasm, and for the cordial, whole- 
hearted services in which he has devoted himself to our pleas- 
ure and interests. He succeeded Mr. Huey in the labors of 
Class Secretary, by vote at the last Reunion, and may be 



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addressed at the Law Department of the University, corner 
34th and Chestnut streets, Philadelphia. 

A. B. and A. M. 

NICHOLAS BIDDLE PHIPPS was born in Wilson 
county, Tennessee, June 2, 1838, and with his parents removed 
to Mississippi about 1844. His father, W. R. D. Phipps, was 
an extensive planter in the vicinity of Yazoo city, where rela- 
tives of the family are still living, among them Mrs. Eliza 
Greenwood Phipps, to whom thanks are due for help in trac- 
ing the family of our Classmate. He has a sister, Mrs. Dar- 
thula Nickelson, at Gallatin, Tenn. 

When sixteen years of age Phipps entered Franklin College, 
Tenn., and in September, i860, went from there to Princeton ; 
his half-brother, Henry C. Phipps, now of St. Louis, starting 
at the same time for Upper Canada College, Toronto, where 
the latter remained five years, the brothers being separated by 
the events of the war and scarcely meeting again. Our Class- 
mate left in the Spring of 1861 and returned to Mississippi, 
where he enlisted. He was in the Engineering Corps of the 
Confederate army for a short time, but was discharged on 
account of disabilities. 

The war over, Mr. Phipps engaged in business, in 1865, as 
a cotton factor at Memphis, which he pursued there for some 
years. In 1878 he went to Texas, where his wife's family had 
had interests, and settled at Paris in the northeastern part of 
the State, as Agent for the Mutual Life Insurance company, 
of New York. He was their first agent established in that 
State, and did the largest business of any representative of 
the company in Texas, up to the time of his death. He was 
connected with the Mutual Life company in that capacity for 
twenty years. 

He married at Columbus, Ky., January 17, 1865, Miss Alice 
Henderson, from the family of that name of North Carolina 
and historically connected with the founding of Kentucky, as 
well as of Texas, — whose father was Judge James Martin 
Henderson of Kentucky. He was a relative of James Pinckney 
Henderson, first President of the Republic of Texas, chiefly 
instrumental in its annexation to the United States, and after- 
wards its Senator. Mrs. Phipps is living at Paris in that State, 



Princeton, Sixty-three 129 

with a daughter, Miss Alice and five sons, of whom two, W. 
R., and H. P., are younger ; — the three elder, O. H., H. D., and 
O. G., were educated at Bethany College, near Wheeling, in 
West Virginia, the two former subsequently taking profes- 
sional degrees at the University of Pennsylvania, at Philadel- 
phia. 

Mr. Phipps died at Hot Springs, Ark., June 12, 1893. 

CHARLES HENRY POTTER was a physician in exten- 
sive practice in Brooklyn, N. Y., where he died in the year 
1881. He was the son of David Magie and Elizabeth (Sher- 
wood) Potter, and was born at Union in Union County, N. J., 
August 12, 1842, in the old homestead of the family, where in 
Revolutionary days resided his great grandfather, who was a 
Captain in the American army during that war. 

Dr. Potter prepared for Princeton at Pearl Cottage Semi- 
nary, Dr. Pingry's school, Elizabeth, where Holden and others 
studied, and entered Sophomore, August 11, i860. Potter is 
set down in the Senior year as having roomed with Zahner at 
20 West College. He gave the Geological Oration at Com- 
mencement. From January until April, 1864, he taught at 
Aberdeen, Ind., and subsequently studied medicine at Bellevue 
Hospital Medical College, in New York, and graduated M.D., 
in March, 1868. In January of that year he began the practice 
of medicine in Brooklyn, and was eminently successful, hav- 
ing at the time of his death one of the largest practices in that 
city of homes. His professional activity extended over thir- 
teen years, during which he won high regard. The direct 
cause of his death, which occurred August 6, 1881, was over- 
work, resulting in an illness of only seven days. 

Dr. Potter married Eva Adella Vannt of Brooklyn, July 22, 
1873, and left at his death two children, Eva Sherwood and 
Adella E. Potter, both of whom are graduates of Packer Insti- 
tute, the former having also taken her degree from Barnard 
College, Columbia University. 

It is an honor to our Class to cite the following allusive 
words, referring to an expression in the " Schedule of Topics " 
sent out at the inception of this Class Book undertaking; — 
" The 'mighty deeds ' of the true physician are in almost con- 
stant sequence, and are seldom known to the world. But when 



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a man becomes so devoted to his patients and his profession 
that in the midst of his manifold duties he succumbs to exhaus- 
tion ; and at the expiration of a seven days' battle for life dies, 
without any organic or functional disorder, — almost never 
having been ill before, — he should be known as a hero falling 
in the thickest of the fight. Unostentatiously, without cant or 
parade, the late Dr. Potter went about his work, — always 
cheerful, patient and faithful, and known as the ' Christian 
Physician ' : From a letter of Mrs. Havens Brewster Baylis, 
formerly Mrs. Charles H. Potter. A. B. and A. M. 

JOHN HAMILTON POTTER was a member of the prom- 
inent family identified with Princeton and with the States of 
South Carolina and Georgia, whose country seat, " Coleraine," 
situated amid extensive rice plantations, lay on the Savan- 
nah river not many miles above the city. He was a grandson 
of John Potter of Charleston and of " Prospect," the nobly 
seated mansion at Princeton which is now the residence of the 
President of the University, of which Dr. McCosh once re- 
marked to< the present writer then enjoying his hospitality, 
that in it he " was lodged more splendidly than any other col- 
lege president in the world." His father, James Potter, lived 
at Princeton in our Class's time, and died in 1862. The Potter 
family were from Ballymoran, county Down, in Ireland. His 
mother was Sarah Grimes, whose grandfather was Chief Jus- 
tice Glen of Savannah, of Colonial and Revolutionary promi- 
nence ; and another ancestor was Noble Wimberly Jones, of 
" Lambeth," Ga., born in Lambeth, Surrey, who was Captain 
of the Provincial forces in the Creek War of 1749, Member and 
Speaker of Assembly and of the Provincial Congress, etc., and 
was sent a prisoner by the British to St. Augustine from 
Charleston in 1780. Connected thus with prominent families 
of the North and South, John Potter was an only son, and the 
hopes of the family name blighted by his untimely loss, were 
centred in his infant son by his marriage with Alice Beirne 
Steenberger of Savannah, only a year before his death. 

He attended the school of St. James the Less in Philadel- 
phia, entered College, 1859, and left in the Fall of 1861, joining 
the Confederate army that winter. He was a Lieutenant in the 
Sixty-third Georgia Infantry under Colonel George A. Gordon. 



Princeton, Sixty-three 131 

He served for two years, the object of admiration and affec- 
tion among his comrades, and was mortally wounded in front 
of Atlanta July 24, 1864. Taken to Macon he lingered for two 
days, dying on the 26th, and was buried at Savannah. Later 
his remains were interred in Trinity churchyard, Princeton. 

He was born November 24, 1842, and was married July 23, 
1863. His son and only child, John Potter of Philadelphia, 
married Elizabeth Sturgis of that city, and has children, Eliza- 
beth, John and Robert. 

His obituary, written by Captain Howard, says, " Gentle as 
a woman, he was brave as a lion. If the foe had deliberately 
selected the most shining mark, if he had determined to inflict 
the severest blow upon the affections of our regiment, he could 
not have more successfully accomplished his purpose, than in 
the death of Lieutenant Potter." 

The above information is furnished by his sister, Mrs. Fanny 
G. Hodgson, of Sewanee, Tennessee. A feeling tribute to him, 
from the pen of Bishop Odenheimer, was printed in the " Rec- 
ord " of 1867. John Potter lived at home and was less familiar 
with the easy life of the College ; but we of the Class well 
recall the bright, young fellow, the handsome face, handsome 
figure, that went so soon, and came not back to the stricken 
young wife ! 

WILLIAM ELMER POTTER, Brevet Major of United 
States Volunteers, Lieutenant-Colonel on the Staff of Gover- 
nor Ward of New Jersey, was an LL. B. of Harvard Law 
School already when he entered Princeton, which he did as a 
Junior, in August, 1861. He early developed a taste for public 
speaking, for which he became noted in after life, both as a 
political and patriotic orator. He had completed his law 
course of two years at Cambridge in June and had previously 
read a year in the office of Hon. John T. Nixon, of Bridgeton, 
N. J. He was born at Bridgeton, June 13, 1840, and received 
his early education at its excellent Academy. He was notice- 
ably more mature than the average among us. His affection 
and love for Princeton were pronounced and he was an earnest 
supporter of it so long as he lived. 

He left in June, 1862, and enlisted in the Twelfth New Jersey 
Volunteers ; was made Second Lieutenant, August 1862, First 



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Lieutenant, August, 1863, Captain, February 4, 1864, and was 
brevetted Major, July 30, 1866. He served till the close of the 
war, and was in all the battles of the army of the Potomac; 
was wounded at The Wilderness, not seriously, however, and 
never drew a pension. One incident he often spoke of, — he 
was within sight, and nearly within hearing, of the Surrender 
at Appomattox, his duty as Staff Officer requiring his pres- 
ence, and the event of that period of his life in which he took 
most pride was that he was one of the officers chosen on that 
occasion to convey the stand of Confederate colors to the Sec- 
retary of War at Washington. His legal knowledge brought 
him into service often during his three years in the army as 
Judge Advocate and on Courts Martial. Colonel Potter was 
a member of Meade Post, No. 2, G. A. R., of Philadelphia ; of 
the Loyal Legion ; the Society of the Cincinnati ; and of 
Brearley Lodge, No. 2, F. & A. M. He was a member of the 
Presbyterian Church at Princeton. 

Returning to Bridgeton after the war, Mr. Potter was admit- 
ted to the Bar, as Attorney in November, 1865, and as Coun- 
sellor, February, 1869. He served as Solicitor of his city and 
county and as Prosecutor of the Pleas of Cape May and At- 
lantic counties; was Delegate to the National Convention of 
the Republican party in 1868 and 1876, and was a Presidential 
elector for the First Congressional District in 1880. He was 
frequently urged to accept the Congressional nomination, but 
felt that his circumstances would not permit his acceptance. 
A lawyer of prominence and recognized ability for many years, 
there were few cases of importance in South Jersey with which 
he was not connected. His earliest case that attracted general 
attention was his defence of Charles K. Landis, in which he 
was successful in freeing his client, a man of high position, 
from the charge of murder. His usual practice, however, was 
in civil cases, as more to his taste and inclination. He was a 
profound student, reader and thinker, and was a widely recog- 
nized authority on the history of the Civil War, upon which 
most of his best speeches were made. His tastes were refined 
and some of his poems written at leisure moments evidence a 
strong poetic feeling. He was not a traveller to any extent, 
and his life was outwardly quiet and uneventful, after he had 
once gained release from the stir of war. 



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Like so many of our Class he was of strong and patriotic 
American ancestry. He was the son of James Boyd and Jane 
(Barron) Potter, — Scotch-Irish, on both sides. His grand- 
father was Colonel David Potter of the Continental army, who 
was captured and spent a year on the " Jersey " Hulk, in the 
harbor of New York, but was afterwards exchanged. Through 
his mother's family he was connected with Commodore Barron 
of Decatur fame, whose act in resisting search of his vessel, 
the Chesapeake, by the British Leopard, in 1807, is said to have 
precipitated the war with England. His father's brother, 
William Potter, was a Lieutenant-Colonel in the War of 1812. 

Mr. Potter married Alice Eddy, a lineal descendant of John 
and Priscilla Alden. He died November 9, 1896, leaving chil- 
dren, Alfred Eddy, James Boyd, David, Alice, and Francis 
Delavan. James Boyd, with whom Mrs. Potter now lives, is a 
lawyer in practice at Bridgeton, and was in the Spanish war 
as a Lieutenant in the Navy with a temporary commission. 
He graduated from the United States Naval Academy at An- 
napolis in 1893. The third son, David, graduated from Prince- 
ton in 1896, and was Class Historian. He was in the Spanish 
war as Paymaster and is now in the permanent establishment. 
Francis is in business in Wisconsin. A. B. and A. M. 

ERASTUS CORNING PRUYN was of Albany, a Cam- 
bridge Collegian, who became a member of the Diplomatic 
Service of the country, with prospects of great promise, and 
who died only too early, at Teneriffe in the Canary Islands, 
February 1, 1881. He was born August 24, 1841. 

He was a member of the Pruyn family that has been settled 
in Albany, N. Y., for over two centuries, and is of Netherlands 
origin, whose genealogy has been printed in various publica- 
tions on that subject. His ancestor Casparus Pruyn was a 
Lieutenant in the American Revolution. Members of the fam- 
ily have held positions in the government of the city and 
county of Albany, in the State Legislature and other State 
positions, and in the Diplomatic service and Congress of the 
United States, — as also in the Parliament of Canada, etc. 

From his brother, J. V. L. Pruyn of Albany, Esq., are de- 
rived the following details of Erastus Corning Pruyn's career. 
He studied at Mr. Calthrop's school at Bridgeport, Connecti- 



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cut, at Princeton in the Class of '63 (for the Freshman- 
year), and at Trinity College, Cambridge, Eng. He was 
appointed Consular or Commercial Agent of the United States 
at Caracas, by William H. Seward, Secretary of State, during 
the Venezuelan Revolution of 1868. Mr. Pruyn was for a 
period the acting Minister there of our Government, in circum- 
stances of difficulty and delicacy growing out of the state of 
civil war, his services being commended by the Department of 
State. He subsequently went abroad for travel, observation 
and study. 

Mr. Pruyn married, but left no issue. 

PETER BERRIEN PUMYEA, M. D., was a physician in 
practice successfully for many years at Allentown, N. J. He was 
born about three miles from New Brunswick in that State, Sep- 
tember 23, 1842. Dr. Pumyea was present at Commencement 
last June seemingly in the best of health, hailing his Classmates 
with his old-time spirit, and subsequently with the greatest 
interest in the project of this Book he corresponded with the 
Class Historian, who was much startled to receive from Dr. 
Holmes the unexpected information of his death, after a very 
brief illness, from an affection of the heart, December 4, 1903. 

He had, a considerable time before, sent the following, in 
which he so interestingly recites and philosophizes his own 
career, that it will better recall him than any mere sketch. 

" In the first year of my existence my parents moved to Frank- 
lin township, Somerset county, about five miles from Princeton, 
— and took me along. Except an occasional trip to New Bruns- 
wick, and once, that I remember, by boat to New York, — when 
I visited Barnum's Museum and the Crystal Palace, a world's 
fair, — my life until I was fourteen was spent upon a farm ; 
which accounts, perhaps, for my innocence and simplicity. 
There were six of us, three boys and three girls ; I was next 
to the youngest, and at fourteen I was sent to Princeton to 
school. There, at John C. Schenck's private school I was pre- 
pared for the College of New Jersey, along with Moffatt, 
Young and J. B. and J. H. Done, and became a member of the 
Class of '63. North, East, West and South College, the Chapel, 
the old Recitation rooms, — ' Johnnie ' McLean and the horn- 
sprees, I recall, but can hardly reconcile with the present 



Princeton, Sixty-three 135 

appearance, — forty years subsequently, — of Princeton Uni- 
versity. Tempora mutantur et mutamur. 

My only offence while in College, at least what the Faculty 
thought deserved suspension, was throwing snowballs one eve- 
ning at the students as they came out and were going into 
Chapel; one of the snowy missiles barely escaped 'Dad' At- 
water. That probably was the reason why I was suspended for 
one week from the duties and privileges of the College. I did 
not know of my suspension (as I was not ' up ' before the 
Faculty) until the time had nearly expired, when Prof. Cam- 
eron at his recitation informed me that I was so adjudged, 
and could come around to his house and recite ! I then recog- 
nized the rigor of the punishment, — but it was not so hard as 
I had expected : — Difficulties and dangers are often magnified 
by distance. ' The Past and Present,' I think, was the sub- 
ject of my Commencement oration ; a very comprehensive and 
formidable theme. As I have not preserved it I cannot, — 
fortunately for you, — furnish you a copy for publication. I do 
not remember to have been interrupted by applause, nor to 
have received any bouquets ; so it would seem not to have 
made a very great impression upon the audience. But I do 
remember of rehearsing it previously in Potter's woods, and 
the trees were very patient listeners. 

I was now twenty-one years old, had a diploma from Prince- 
ton College, and the wide world was before me. Just previous 
to my graduation I had received through a friend a proposition 
to teach in a private family in Hancock, Maryland, along the 
Potomac. In August, 1863, I went to Hancock. The battle 
of Gettysburg had been fought in the previous July, and there 
was no communication with the Western part of Maryland by 
rail ; from Chambersburg, Pa., I went by stage to Hagerstown, 
and the next day from there by stage again to Hancock. Dur- 
ing this stage journey of about fifty miles I received my first 
impression of the meaning of war. Soldiers were everywhere, 
business was suspended, and everything was in disorder and 
confusion ; and all strangers were looked upon with suspicion. 
I was told at the hotel in Chambersburg that they could not 
accommodate me, and it was only by good luck that I got a 
ride to Hagerstown. A few years ago I was in Hagerstown 
and tried to find the hotel where I stopped that night, but 



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there was nothing that looked like it, and I could find nobody 
that knew of it. What a change in this country since the war ! 

The time spent in Hancock, two and a half years, was a holi- 
day. I was located in a very pleasant house just outside of the 
town, in a family noted for its hospitality, and out of school 
hours we hunted for partridges and wild turkeys, shot ducks 
and wild pigeons and caught great strings of bass in the Poto- 
mac, — ' Fond recollection loves to dwell ' amid those mem- 
ories. A few years ago I was in Baltimore and saw there 
my old employer, in whose family I taught. He did not recog- 
nize me ; his mind was a total blank : — The sight of old friends 
or places is often tragic ! 

While in Maryland I had ' no thought of the morrow,' but 
when I returned home the question arose, What to do? How 
shall my life be spent? — a vital question that everyone must 
answer. My diploma certified that " Petrus Berrien Pumyea 
juvenem ingenium, moribus inculpatum, literisque humanoribus 
imbutum;" but how shall these qualities be made efficient in 
earning a livelihood? After consultation and advice I deter- 
mined to study medicine, and my diploma, given by Bellevue 
Hospital Medical College in New York city on the first day 
of March 1868, testifies to my authority to practise medicine 
and surgery. 

I located at Imlaystown, N. J., on the eastern edge of Mercer 
county, and stayed there until the year after my marriage, 
which occurred in the fall of 1879. I then moved to Hights- 
town, nine miles north, and after living there two years moved 
to Allentown, part way back, where I still reside. We have 
had two children, a boy and a girl. The girl we lost when she 
was four years old; the boy is a graduate of Princeton Uni- 
versity and now in his third year at the College of Physicians 
and Surgeons, Columbia University. I should be glad to wel- 
come any of the Class of '63 at my home in the quiet, retired 
village of Allentown, where I hope to spend the rest of my 
life." A. B. and A.M. 

ABRAM BEACH READING, who was from Vicksburg, 
entered our Class as a Freshman with us and left at the begin- 
ning of the Sophomore year. He joined the Confederate army, 
and was killed before Richmond. This early close of his career 



Princeton, Sixty-three 137 

was reported to the Class at our Triennial and the fact was 
confirmed by Rowland Cox, Cross and Inman. Our Classmate 
Gammon had had a chance meeting with him in the street 
at Richmond, no long time before ; but to the enquiries of the 
Class Historian replied, " That he knew nothing further of 
Reading, than that his people were prominent, of large means 
and of the best class." It was feared that this was all that 
could be imparted concerning him, when the Class Historian, 
after long seeking quite in vain, was put in communication 
with the only surviving relatives, through a firm in Vicksburg 
who took a kind interest in the matter, whose name had been 
furnished by Mr. Gammon. The Warner and Searles company 
communicated that a cousin of Mr. Reading's there had given 
them the name of Miss Ella R. Reading, his only sister, of 
Abilene, Texas, who gladly sends the following: 

" He was born at Vicksburg, Miss., September 21, 1841. His 
father was Cornelius Attwood Reading, whose older and 
younger brothers were Abram Beach Reading, from whom our 
Classmate was named, and Randolph Gouverneur Reading, 
and he is survived by one brother, Harry Attwood Reading 
and the sister above mentioned. The English origin of the 
family is attested by the name, derived from the old tenth 
century town across the water. His mother was Elizabeth C, 
daughter of Dr. Joel C. Rice, whose wife, his maternal grand- 
mother was, also, a Rebecca Reading, a distant cousin of his 
father's. There were ancestors in both the Colonial and Brit- 
ish armies in the Revolution. 

" He was at Hagerstown, Md., in course of preparation for 
College two terms. He took up arms in the cause of the South 
when the war began, as a member of the ' Volunteer South- 
rons ' of Vicksburg, a company later incorporated in the 
Twenty-first Mississippi Regiment, which was among the ear- 
liest sent to join General Lee's forces in Virginia. He went 
through the Peninsular campaign against McClellan and on 
the Chickahominy, and was shot in the action at Savage's 
Station during the ' Seven Days' Battles,' June 29, 1862." 

HOWARD JAMES REEDER was a jurist of high author- 
ity, and was Judge of the Superior Court of Pennsylvania at 
the time of his death, having held other Judgeships and several 

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important public positions. He was born at Easton, December 
ii, 1843 > an d died there December 28, 1898. 

He was descended from John Reeder, who came from Eng- 
land to the American Colonies in 1636, settling at Springfield, 
Mass., from which place he moved in 1652 to Newtown, L. I., 
and thence to near Trenton, N. J., about 1700. After the Revo- 
lution Absalom Reeder, grandfather of our Classmate, who 
had served as a soldier in the later years of that war, removed 
to Easton, Pa., where he spent the remainder of his life, dying 
in 1853, at eighty. His son, Andrew H. Reeder, was a man 
eminent in public trusts, and was by President Pierce, in 1854, 
appointed the first Governor of the Territory of Kansas. He 
was elected Senator from Kansas in 1856. The maternal 
grandfather was Christian J. Hutter, a Pennsylvania Colonel 
in the War of 1812. 

Howard prepared with his brother Frank at Reynolds's 
Academy, now Mecklinburg College at Allentown, Pa., and at 
the Lawrenceville and Edge Hill schools, entering Sophomore. 
With Huey, J. K. Casey and Frank Reeder he was suspended 
for patriotic over-work at the pump-handle in the early days 
of 1861. He left College in the late fall of that year to accept a 
Commission as Second Lieutenant in Company A, First United 
States Infantry, and joined his regiment, serving on the Atlan- 
tic coast. Being wounded and in ill health, he resigned from 
the army and rejoined the Class in May, 1862 ; but left soon 
again with an appointment as Adjutant in the One Hundred 
and Fifty-third Pennsylvania Volunteers, which was sent 
West. In the army of Missouri in 1862 he was wounded at 
New Madrid, March 13, and after the healing of his wound 
served in the army of the Potomac until his discharge, which 
took place after the battle of Gettysburg. 

He chose the Law for his profession, and studied in the 
office of Hon. Henry Green, Chief Justice of Pennsylvania, and 
afterwards at the Harvard Law School. He was admitted to 
practice in 1867, and formed a law partnership with his brother 
at Easton, under the firm name of Reeder & Reeder, which 
continued till he took his seat on the Bench. He was appointed 
Judge of the Court of Common Pleas in the Third Judicial Dis- 
trict, by Governor Hoyt in 1881, and was reseated in his judge- 
ship by election in 1884, serving till 1895. He then was ap- 



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pointed Judge of the Superior Court of Pennsylvania, and the 
same year was elected to the office for the full term of ten 
years, his lamented death, however, terminating his service at 
the close of 1898. 

Judge Reeder was appointed Commissioner of Fisheries by 
Governor Hartranft, in 1873 ; he was candidate for Auditor- 
General in 1877 and was Delegate to the National Convention 
of the Republican party in 1876, and again in 1880. 

He married Miss Helen Burke, May 7, 1867. One child died 
in infancy. His son, John Knight Reeder, of Philadelphia, is a 
graduate of Lafayette and has a daughter. The other living child 
is his daughter Leila, who is married to James W. Fox, Attorney 
at Law, also of Lafayette, and has a son. Judge Reeder's career, 
as soldier, in the pursuit of his profession and on the Bench, is 
an honor to the Class as well as to his name, as his companion- 
ship in the earlier College years is a green and happy recol- 
lection to us all as we look back to that now distant time. 

A. B. and A. M. 

FRANK REEDER, for a number of years Chairman of the 
Republican State Committee, is a publicist and an influence of 
importance in the politics of the great State of Pennsylvania. 
He was born at Easton, May 22, 1845. Brother of Howard 
Reeder, preceding, he prepared and entered College with him, 
sharing his popularity with some special favor of his own on 
account of his gay youthfulness, — and his suspension for haz- 
ing a Northern student who expressed secession sentiments. 
Being younger than Howard, he remained till September 1862, 
when the war impulse claimed him. 

His ancestry ascends from Absalom Reeder through a John, 
an Isaac and a John to still another John, the " exiled father " 
who among the Puritans " crossed the flood " in 1636. The 
parents' names were Andrew Horatio Reeder and Fredericka 
Amalia Hutter. The father was one of the earliest graduates 
of the famous Lawrenceville Academy. He was one of the 
most eminent lawyers of Pennsylvania, and filled many posi- 
tions of importance and distinction, as stated in the previous 
sketch, and in the National Convention of the Republican 
party in i860 was strongly urged by many for the nomination 
and received the third highest vote for Vice-President of the 



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United States, as " running mate " with the great Abraham 
Lincoln. Governor Reeder died in 1864. 

Our Classmate, escaping from prosaic study and allowed his 
bent, entered the army as simple private in the Fourth Penn- 
sylvania Infantry. In a month or two he was promoted to 
Adjutant of the One Hundred and Seventy-fourth, became, in 
October, 1865, Captain in the Nineteenth Cavalry; and "for 
conspicuous gallantry " was brevetted Major. As Lieutenant- 
Colonel commanding that, — which was the last volunteer regi- 
ment in the service, — he was discharged, June 6, 1866. He was 
taken prisoner in 1863, but escaped the enemy's hands, and he 
was wounded in the Battle of Nashville, December 17, 1864. 
In the organization of the Grand Army of the Republic after 
the war, Colonel Reeder was elected Department Commander, 
and in 1874 was appointed Brigadier-General of the National 
Guard of his State. This post he resigned in 1881. 

Choosing his profession, he entered the Albany Law School 
and graduated LL. B. in 1868, in the Class with Major William 
McKinley, later to be President of the United States. Reeder 
had been accustomed to contact and acquaintance with those 
in public position in his father's home, and it was his fortune 
to be from the beginning of his legal career thrown into close 
association with men who were to hold some of the highest 
offices an American can attain. This circumstance doubtless 
contributed to shape his course. He was admitted to practice 
in the New York Supreme Court in March, 1868, and had 
offices in New York city, first, with Hon. J. K. Porter, and 
then with General Chester A. Arthur, who was also, some 
years later to be President. 

In 1870 he returned to his own State and formed with his 
brother at Easton the law firm of Reeder & Reeder, a change 
which brought him into availability in the political life there. 
In 1900 he became the head of the present firm of Reeder & 
Coffin. In his financial and business relations he is President 
of the American Bangor Slate company, and a director of the 
Easton and Northern railroad, of the Easton Trust company 
and other corporations. His travels have taken him to Europe 
some eight times, to Cuba in 1893 and to Mexico in 1899, to 
Canada and various parts of this country. 

General Reeder entered early into official and political life, 



Princeton, Sixty-three 141 

enjoying the confidence of his associates in places for which he 
had peculiar fitness. He was appointed Collector of revenue 
by President Grant for the Eleventh District of Pennsylvania 
in 1873 and served till 1876. He was a delegate to the Repub- 
lican National Convention in 1888 and again in 1896, and 
Delegate-at-large to those of 1892 and 1900. In 1891 he was 
Republican candidate for the proposed Constitutional conven- 
tion. That year in the absence of Lieutenant-Governor 
Watres, the State Chairman, then presiding at a special session 
of the Senate, Mr. Reeder's familiarity with political affairs and 
aptitude for such leadership caused him to be looked to, to fill 
that place, and acting in that capacity he took charge of the 
campaign of his party. The delicate duties of the position were 
discharged so much to satisfaction that in 1892 he was made 
State Chairman, and again in 1899 and 1900. He was Secretary 
of the Commonwealth under Governor Hastings in 1897, and 
Commissioner of Banking in 1900. Once more in 1901, after 
the State convention, he was selected as Chairman, and he 
holds the position still. 

He married, October 21, 1868, Grace E. Thompson of Bos- 
ton. Their children are, 1, Andrew Howard, born September 
9, 1869, a graduate of Lafayette, '90, who married in 1872, 
Esther Eckard, and has issue, Andrew H. and Elizabeth Bay- 
ard. By profession an engineer, Mr. Reeder is now at the 
head of the department of Mines and Fuel of the Canadian 
Pacific railway. 2, Frank, Jr., born May 4, 1880, Lafayette, 
'oi, now studying law. 3, Douglas Wyman, born August 25, 
1883, Lafayette, '05. 

Our Classmate's prominence and success in the management 
of political affairs have been marked. As John Fiske says of 
the deserved estimation of one of his finest New England 
characters, " The explanation is chiefly to be found in his 
inheritance of public spirit and rare ability, combined with 
the general favor won by genial manners and unblemished 
purity of life." With the sunny buoyancy that marked him 
as one of the youngest College boys among us when we were 
comrades of the campus, which he yet retains, and which gives 
him easy capacity for work, he yet seems to mix with it a cer- 
tain vein of tender sentiment, like that of the one who would 
not drink the water drawn at risk of brave men's lives, but used 



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it religiously, a way of touching fine chords, which is attrac- 
tive, the more because it is so rare and so unlike themselves, 
to even the roughest and the most bluntly practical of men, and 
tends greatly to make its possessor sure of their trust and fol- 
lowing. A man that was generally liked and trusted, he has 
been " wanted for all sorts of things." A. B. and A. M. 

BENJAMIN SHERROD RICKS, Jr., one of the most emi- 
nent and influential citizens of Mississippi since the Civil War, 
was born May 23, 1843, near Canton in Madison county, where 
the family lived when he left for College. His father, Benja- 
min S. Ricks, Sr., was a North Carolinian by birth, where his 
ancestors, of Welsh descent, located very early on a grant in 
Halifax county, who after having been educated at Chapel Hill, 
N. C, emigrated to Mississippi at twenty-eight and devotee! 
himself to planting and to a commission business in New 
Orleans for twenty-two years, though he had been educated 
for a physician. The mother of our Classmate, Frances Winter, 
was of distinguished descent, a daughter of Major Winter, of 
Virginia, whose mother was the daughter of Bailey Washington, 
a first cousin of General George Washington, and the same rela- 
tion to Henry Lee, " Light Horse Harry," the father of General 
Robert E. Lee. 

Ricks received his preparatory education at the famous 
Bingham school in North Carolina, removed in recent years to 
Asheville, although he states in our Triennial " Record " that 
he " prepared at Tutwiter's school, Green Springs, Ala." He 
probably was at both schools. He came to Princeton in Octo- 
ber, i860, and roomed at Miss Passage's. He was in the midst 
of his College course when the war between the States broke 
out. He left, in April, 1861, with a great crowd of Southern 
students, when that unfortunate contest was seen to be inevita- 
ble, and indentified himself with the interests of his State. He 
enlisted in the Twenty-eighth Mississippi Cavalry, Co. C, was 
promoted to Lieutenant, and subsequently to Adjutant of 
his regiment, which was throughout the service with General 
W. H. Jackson's division of Cavalry and Frank Armstrong's 
brigade of Forrest's Corps, until it was surrendered, in Ala- 
bama, May 12, 1865. He was wounded at Adairsville, Ky., and 
was subsequently in many hard-fought battles in Tennessee. 



Princeton, Sixty-three 143 

After the war, writing to our Class Secretary, he says he 
" commenced planting, January i, 1866," and the gallant 
gentleman speaks out in his greeting to the Class, in response 
to the invitation to our Triennial banquet, — " 'Tis gratifying to 
the Southern members of the Class to see their Northern 
friends extending courtesy to us. We appreciate their kind- 
ness, and regret that we cannot attend the celebration in 
person. Will the Class accept my best wishes in its laudable 
efforts?" He finally settled at "Belle Prairie," his beautiful 
plantation home on the Yazoo river. Here he lived a quiet 
but busy and very successful life, until in 1882 he removed to 
Yazoo City. He was very active in promoting the efficiency 
of the State militia, of which he was made Major-General, by 
Governor Lowry, in 1880. 

In 1873 ne married, in Geneva, Switzerland, Miss Fanny 
Jones, of Charlotte, N. C, who survives him, — among the most 
accomplished and philanthropic ladies of the South. She 
erected a few years ago an exquisite and very substantial edi- 
fice for the Yazoo Library Association, as a memorial to her 
husband, known as The B. S. Ricks Memorial, a gem of archi- 
tectural skill, costly and convenient, and the pride of the city 
where it is located. 

This gracious and beneficent lady, at her own expense, in 
furtherance of the cause of education, has supported for years 
The University Summer School for the public school teachers 
of the entire State of Mississippi, to which recently, however, 
supplementary aid has been afforded from the Southern Edu- 
cational Society, owing to the size to which it has grown. Last 
summer there were some 800 teachers in attendance upon this 
most excellent and well-planned school at the University build- 
ings at Oxford in that State. 

In 1884 General Ricks was made a member of the State 
Levee Board, a most important charge, in which the vast 
planting interests of the entire Mississippi Delta were and 
are concerned. While a member of this Board he did admir- 
able service for the State. As a citizen and a business man his 
large views have made him of great influence in the commu- 
nity where he so long resided. He was among the most liberal 
investors in progressive enterprises that looked to the com- 
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and command over men always inspired confidence. At the 
time of his death, which occurred December 3, 1899, he was 
President of the People's Ice Plant, of the large Producers' 
Oil Mill, and of the Yazoo Commercial Company, and a Direc- 
tor in nearly all of the business institutions of any note in the 
locality. He was a generous supporter of the Yazoo Library 
Association, which now finds a splendid home in the striking 
and elegant structure erected to his memory. He was a gen- 
erous supporter of the Presbyterian Church in which he 
became increasingly interested as his life advanced, and of 
which he was a member at the time of his death. 

His brother, W. B. Ricks, Esq., and his sister, Mrs. Fanny 
R. Jones, reside at Canton. A brief outline such as this gives 
but an inadequate idea of the life and work of one who occu- 
pied a large place in the community where he made his home, 
and of the estimation in which he was held. General Ricks 
was a man of fine physique and most dignified bearing. His 
business interests were so manifold that it required great 
executive skill to manage them, and his large success indicates 
the measure of his ability as a man of affairs. He mastered the 
details of everything with which he was connected, and while 
loyal to all these serious obligations, no man ever enjoyed 
more than genial " Ben," — as he was affectionately known, — 
the social amenities of life and the healthy recreations which 
prevail in this region of the country. 

EUGENE ROACH was born at " Woodland," the country 
seat of his father, Benjamin Roach, near Natchez, Mississippi, 
on the 6th of April 1843. His father was a man of ample 
wealth, as wealth was counted in ante-bellum times, and 
owned large cotton plantations in Mississippi, both on the 
great river and on the Yazoo, and was also the owner of many 
slaves. His mother was a Miss Wilkins of Natchez, whose 
family were of distinction and prominence even during the 
Colonial period of Natchez, and when Mississippi was a Terri- 
tory. In the formative days Colonel James C. Wilkins was a 
Territorial Governor after Governor Winthrop Sergeant's 
term expired. Mr. Roach died when his son Eugene was five 
years old, and the mother afterwards married Judge Alexan- 
der Montgomery, a noted jurist and public-spirited man. When 



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Eugene was about fifteen years of age, he accompanied his 
brother Wilkins, (who appears to have been the elder), to 
Princeton, where he was a student until the war of 1861-65 
broke out. Their home address at this time, according to the 
Catalogue of our Freshman year, was Vicksburg, to which 
place the family seem to have moved in the interim from 
Natchez. The brothers left College to enter the Confederate 
army, in which they both served faithfully (as privates, appar- 
ently), until the surrender of General Lee at Appomattox, in 
April 1865. Eugene, at the age of about eighteen, enlisted in 
a company called the " Natchez Rifles," which was raised by 
Mr. Alfred Davis, brother to the President of the Confederacy, 
at his own expense, who took the company off to Bowling 
Green, Ky., which point General Buckner had occupied at the 
initial stage of the war, but afterwards Captain Davis resigned 
and left his men in command of Lieutenant Bisland. They 
were changed around and finally distributed to other com- 
mands. Eugene was at Fort St. Philip on the lower Missis- 
sippi when Farragut bombarded and captured the forts below 
New Orleans. He swam the river in the general stampede, and 
made his way to the city, where his mother was then residing. 
But as the federal forces took possession he escaped out of 
the place as soon as he was able to accomplish it, and re- 
joined the Confederate army. He was in time to take 
part in the Battles of Corinth and Shiloh, at Chickamauga 
and other great battles, and during the siege of Vicksburg 
he was in the trenches fighting the combined forces of Grant 
and Farragut. 

After the war he returned to New Orleans, where he met and' 
married Miss Annie McLean, a lady widely celebrated as a 
vocalist of great artistic talent and ability, who survives him. 
She is of patriot stock ; her great grandfather, Colonel B. Von 
Schaumberg, was one of General Washington's officers during 
the Revolutionary war, and her grand-uncle, Colonel James 
von Schaumberg, was of Mexican war fame and had previously 
fought also in the Seminole war in Florida. 

Mr. Roach was of a very retiring and modest disposition, 
making little of his army service, and after the war scarcely 
ever referring to it. He cultivated his plantations successfully 
for a series of years when, about 1880, reverses came upon 



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his affairs and he removed from Mississippi to Louisiana to 
engage in other business. He died in New Orleans, April 20, 
1894, and left a large family, all of them grown to years, — 
four sons and five daughters. The sons are James Lea 
McLean, Wilkins, Benjamin, and Schaumberg Roach. One of 
the daughters Miss Emma Roach, is now Mrs. Ross. Mrs. 
Roach resides in the city, and her address is 1630 Erato street, 
New Orleans. 

JAMES WILKINS ROACH passed his early life with his 
brother Eugene, and entered the Class with him. They 
roomed at McVeigh's and left Princeton together at the end 
of their first year. They were from Vicksburg, according to 
the Catalogue of our Freshman year, but the " Record " of 
1867, while reporting them as " not heard from," gives as their 
" P. O. address, Yazoo- City." The Messrs. Warner and 
Searles of Vicksburg, write that " there were two families 
named Roach that lived in this county at the time, one for a 
long period previous, the other who had moved from Adams 
county, near Natchez, a short time before the war." The in- 
ference would be that the family of our Classmates was the 
latter of these two. The locality of their cotton estates was the 
theatre of General Grant's operations in the Vicksburg cam- 
paign and their property was no doubt devastated and sub- 
jected to loss, Captain Rowland Cox distinctly stating the 
fact that our forces occupied a plantation owned by them of 
which he had personal knowledge. The family were thus 
identified with all three places, Natchez, where Eugene Roach 
is stated to have been born, and not unlikely his brother like- 
wise, Vicksburg and Yazoo City. The Class Historian, whose 
researches were perplexed by this circumstance, is indebted to 
Mrs. Rebecca B. Marks, of Natchez, widow of Rev. Alexander 
Marks (of '62), for assistance in recovering traces of these 
Classmates, whose friends he had vainly tried to reach ; and to 
Mr. T. H. Roach of Rosedale, Miss., (formerly of Marksville, 
La.,) who, though not a kinsman, but of a wholly different 
family, writes that both Eugene and Wilkins were his school- 
fellows in 1856-57. He says, " Your letter brings back such a 
host of long-dormant memories, that I fear I may become 
prolix in replying. Wilkins married Miss Kate, the lovely 



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daughter of Dr. D. B. Nailor, living near Vicksburg. They 
both have passed away (many years ago), leaving one son, 
Nailor Roach." He also knew Mrs. Eugene Roach in her girl- 
hood as a popular belle and musical favorite, and on removing 
to New Orleans from Vicksburg, in 1881, renewed the old 
friendship with them and their family. By his courtesy the 
address of Mr. James Lea McLean, a prominent cotton opera- 
tor of the city was obtained, brother of the last mentioned 
lady, — who states that Wilkins Roach, like her husband, 
" served the whole four years of the war of 1861-65," an d that 
his son, Nailor Roach, Esq., is living and at this time residing 
on his plantation near Vicksburg. 

SYLVANUS SAYRE was a devoted missionary, first in 
Chile and later on the Pacific coast, where he ended his labors 
February 8, 1900. 

The son of David P. and Hannah Murphy Sayre, he was 
born at Bridgeton, N. J., March 30, 1836. He fitted at the Phil- 
adelphia High School and Media Classical Institute. He en- 
tered Freshman, roomed in the Refectory, and took three 
years in the Seminary. He " always kept up his interest in 
Princeton and delighted to talk of his seven years there to 
younger men who had been there later." His widow writes 
from Portland, Oregon : — 

" I wish my husband to be kept in the memory of his Class- 
mates, and would not like a history of his Class to appear with- 
out some notice of him. Immediately after leaving the Semi- 
nary he went to Chile, South America, at first in the Union 
Church, Valparaiso, under the American and Foreign Christian 
Union, afterwards coming under the Presbyterian Board of 
Foreign Missions. He married there, May 4, 1868, Miss Maria 
Emma Laroze, and there were born to them two daughters, 
now living, the mother dying at the birth of the second, in 
1871. 

He continued his work in Chile at Talca and Copiapa until 
the summer of 1876, when he returned to the United States. 
He supplied different churches in and around Philadelphia dur- 
ing the next few years, until May 24, 1880, when we were mar- 
ried, and went to live near Alleghany, Pa., taking charge of a 
chapel started as a mission by the Leetsdale Church, then 



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under the care of Rev. R. S. Van Cleve, his Princeton Class- 
mate. There our son, James Van Cleve, was born, twenty- 
one years ago. 

In 1885, from different reasons, health being one, we deter- 
mined to come West, and went as far as California, where for 
several months Mr. Sayre preached in a newly organized 
Church at San Gorgonio. That did not seem a fit place for us 
to settle, and we moved on, finally getting to Oregon. There 
he joined the Oregon Presbytery as it then was, comprising 
the whole State, and was sent to supply the Church in Link- 
ville, Klamath county, staying nearly two years. He sup- 
plied the Church at Oakland, together with another at Wilbur, 
for a time. The next and final move, from motives of my own 
health was to Clatsop Plains, in Clatsop county, near the 
mouth of the Columbia river and also near the Pacific ocean. 
There we found a quiet resting place, and as it was soon shown 
us that Mr. Sayre's health was failing, we settled there and 
stayed nearly twelve years. Though not installed, he was 
virtually pastor to that whole scattered community. The last 
few years he was able only to preach once each Sabbath, but 
kept that up, — even after his physician had warned him not 
to preach, — until the last Sabbath in October, 1899. Valvular 
disease of the heart had been coming on for some time, and he 
gradually grew worse until he died. 

He was buried in the graveyard of the little Church within 
sound of the Pacific's waves, and it is worthy of note that 
this Church which he served so long was the first organized 
Presbyterian Church on this Pacific coast. In September 1896, 
we held a semi-centennial, which was attended by a large gath- 
ering of those formerly connected with the Church and neigh- 
borhood, assisted by the Astoria Church and pastor, who took 
a lively interest in the commemoration. A semi-centennial of 
anything in this new land is a remarkable event. 

Mr. Sayre's daughters, whom I have brought up as my 
own, are married, — the elder followed her husband to Alaska, 
after her father's death, and is still there. The younger is 
living in San Francisco, and is blessed with a beautiful little 
son. Our son, James, had always shown a decided taste for 
journalism, and is now employed as reporter on the Oregonian, 
of Portland, and making and keeping a home for me ; for 



Princeton, Sixty-three 149 

he is my main dependence." While supplying the Clatsop 
Church Mr. Sayre's address was Skipanon, and subsequently 
Warrenton. He died, February 8, 1900. Mrs. Sayre was Miss 
Mary Catharine Brown of Philadelphia. A. B. and A. M. 

WILLIAM LIBBEY SEXTON is a New York merchant- 
manufacturer, and has been long active in promoting the work 
of certain of the wisely organized philanthropies of the city 
and vicinity, among which is the Christadora House, of which 
he is Treasurer. 

He writes, — " A snowstorm on the night of January 28, 1845, 
landed me in the Bowery, — what would you expect from a 
Bowery Boy? This one's parents were shrewd enough to 
move themselves over to the West side of Manhattan in the 
days when Forty-second street was farm land." He bears the 
name of that William Libbey who was a partner of the famous 
house of A. T. Stewart & Co., father of Professor Libbey, 
of Princeton. He went to school at Twelfth street and Broad- 
way, then up to Twenty-second street, and finally to Willis's 
school, the " Institute," at Freehold, N. J. Thence he came 
at the age of fifteen to the Sophomore Class in i860. His 
father, whose ancestors were from Concord and Lexington, 
Mass., was born at Paterson, N. J. ; his mother at Newburgh, 
N. Y. His early religious training was in New York under the 
venerable Dr. James W. Alexander in the Fifth Avenue 
Church then at Nineteenth street, where, he says, " I remem- 
ber once of reaching the head of the Sunday School for good 
recitations in Cathechism." 

Mr. Sexton's distinction is that of being the youngest man 
in the Class. 

" The breaking out of the war in 1861 paralysed business 
so much that it was necessary for me to leave College at the 
end of the year ; and getting a taste of business life, I made the 
mistake-of not resuming my studies later on. Not rooming on 
the College grounds, I had not the opportunity to make the 
friendships that come with a closer contact with the life of the 
Campus; but I enjoyed the year at Princeton thoroughly, and 
have ever been proud of the splendid Class of '63." Few of 
our Classmates have maintained so close a touch with Prince- 
ton since the day of our leaving there as Mr. Sexton ; his eldest 



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son, William Alfred, was a graduate of the Class of '94, and 
was Secretary of his Class. Sorrowful to say, he died, since 
we met last year at Princeton, October 1, 1903. 

Mr. Sexton's older brother, Augustus Wilder Sexton, was a 
graduate, of the Class of '60, — " Too young to enlist, I un- 
selfishly let my big brother go to the front, and remained at 
home watching his career as he served on General Banks's 
Staff in Louisiana. I naturally took up my father's business, 
that of the manufacture of fine grade jewelry, gems, etc., which 
I have followed with a fair measure of success to the present 
time. 

I married Antoinette Bradley Jenkins, in 1867, a lovely 
Christian woman, who passed to her rest in 1877, leaving three 
sons ; — of whom I can say, that they, neither of them, have ever 
brought anything but pride and pleasure to their father. While 
the boys were still children of tender age, I married Mary 
Anderson, who to them has been a faithful and good mother. 
My eldest boy died as above stated, in October, 1903 ; in the 
same month my youngest son, Herbert, was married to a Miss 
Dorrance, in New York. 

In matters of my business life, I was President of the New 
York Jewellers' Association in 1892, the representative body of 
the wholesale Jewellers of the East. I was Chairman of the 
Board of School Trustees at West Brighton, Staten Island, 
when we erected a $9,500 school house, during my residence 
there ; and was one of the Eldership of the West Brighton 
Calvary Presbyterian Church, and was Chairman of the Build- 
ing Committee when the edifice was burned and a fine new 
one was built. I have always been Superintendent of a Sunday 
school, and now as a resident of Manhattan am an upholder of 
Vermilye Chapel, on the West Side, and am in charge of its 
Sunday school. My spare time is largely devoted, and for 
some years has been, to the work of Christadora House, on the 
east side of the city, one of the ' Settlements ' planted in the 
midst of the excessively crowded districts as a centre of effort 
for the young people who have few opportunities." Sexton 
writes, " God bless you for being so patient with me ; I am so 
busy that I scarcely have time to eat. I have been at Christa- 
dora all the afternoon telling the Managers of my success in 
raising some thousands to pay all indebtedness to date. Just 



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think, in that one Settlement there are twenty-one Clubs, 
eleven for girls and ten for boys ! 

The most agreeable function I attended last year was the 
Reunion of '63 at the Princeton Inn. I hope to attend a few 
more of the same kind." Business address, 7 Maiden Lane; 
residence, 229 West 97th street, New York City. 

GEORGE WILLIAM SHELDON is an Author, Journalist 
and Critic of subjects connected with art, who for a series of 
years was a resident in London as the representative of the 
publishing house of D. Appleton & Company of New York. At 
a meeting of the Class in the Senior Recitation room, March 16, 
1863, Sheldon was elected Class Secretary, in which office he 
was succeeded by Huey, upon whose death it was devolved 
upon Patton. In 1867 he printed the volume, " Records of the 
Class of Sixty-three, College of N. J.," to which frequent refer- 
ence has been made in these pages. It contains an account of 
the Triennial meeting and banquet ; sketches or notes of 109 
of the Class, (all except Albro and John H. Done) ; a " Roll of 
Honor," the war record of thirteen Classmates* who served 

*The names of this Roll of Honor are as follows; — Rowland Cox, 
Holden, Huey, (navy), Hunt, Jackson, Mac Coy, (navy), Marcellus, Moffat, 
Wm. E. Potter, Frank Reeder, Howard Reeder, Stanfield, and John M. 
Williams, 13, 

The following were also in the Union service ; — Baird, Breckinridge, 
Colman, Hamilton, Holmes, McCauley, Merritt, McLeod Thomson, and 
Henry M. Williams, 9 4- 13 = 22. Stryker was at the Wilderness on 
surgical work, and Strickler in the same at Washington, Patton was in 
the Pay Department, Baldwin in the Quartermaster's Department, and 
Lupton lost his life in the Freedmen's service. Finally, Dewing, Foster, 
Hayt and Swinnerton were in the Christian Commission service, the latter 
also spent periods of four months and six months in the recruiting service, 
Nichols likewise was in the Provost Marshal's service in recruiting. 
Holden, Hunt, Breckinridge, Merritt and John M. Williams lost their lives 
in the service, or from injury resulting in death shortly after. 

On the Confederate side, there were the following seventeen in the 
service; — Gammon, Greenwood, Hueston, Hutchins, Inman, King, Locke, 
Marks, Phipps, John H. Potter, Reading, Ricks, E. Roach and J. W. 
Roach, Henley Smith, Washburn and Whaley. Greenwood, Marks 
John H. Potter and also Reading lost their lives, all killed in battle or 
from the immediate effects of wounds. 

The whole number of soldiers is thirty-eight, — over one third of the 
hundred and eleven. (See the Mortuary Statement at the foot of the 
sketch of Lupton). 



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in the Federal forces ; and a necrological record embracing 
extended obituaries of Holden, Hunt, Lupton, Marks, John H. 
Potter, John Magie Williams and Sutphen, the last by his pen. 
The present Class Historian acknowledges his great indebted- 
ness to this most valuable work, in undertaking suddenly the 
totally unexpected task of tracing the same names after a 
period of forty years, during which he had scarcely heard of 
the greater part of them. 

Sheldon was born in Summerville, S. C, January 28, 1843. 
He prepared at Pearl Cottage Seminary, Elizabeth, and entered 
in April, i860, near the close of the Freshman year. His home 
was at Princeton, in Mercer street. He received the Valedic- 
tory at our Graduation, and was easily one of our best stu- 
dents. He studied Theology in New York at the Union Semi- 
nary for two years, when in 1865 he became Tutor of Latin in 
the College, and returning to Princeton studied in the Semi- 
nary there, becoming Tutor of Belles Lettres in 1866. In 1867 
he was appointed Instructor in the Oriental Languages in the 
Union Seminary and spent the years from that time till 1873 
in New York in that work. He subsequently devoted himself 
to Journalism, Art Criticism and Authorship, and by and by 
went to Europe in a business capacity, as above stated. The 
College recognized his literary work with the degree of L. H. 
D. in 1896. 

Mr. Sheldon is a Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society, 
like our Classmate Patterson. He has been a contributor to 
Harpers, The Century, etc. He has published a considerable 
list of books, principally on art subjects and kindred matters: 
— " American Painters," " Hours with Art and Artists," " Ar- 
tistic Homes," " Artistic Country Seats," " Selections in Mod- 
ern Art," and " Recent Ideals of American Art." One of his 
earlier works was a " Story of the Fire Department of New 
York City," and a more recent one is " Ideals of Life in 
France." A. B., A. M. and L. H. D., 1896. 

WILLIAM PRESTON SMALLEY, son of Andrew A. 
Smalley, was born at Stanhope, N. J., September 12, 1841, 
where he lived the early part of his life. He gave a whimsical 
account of his youthful, boarding school and College days in 
the Class " Record " of 1866-67. He was among the most ele- 



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gant men in our Class, exceedingly agreeable in manner and 
full of wit and amusement. He was a very good scholar, and 
the promise of a most brilliant and serviceable career was sadly 
cut off by his untimely death. The following account is fur- 
nished by Mrs. Smalley: 

" At the age of twelve he was sent to boarding school at 
Flushing, Long Island, at which school he prepared for Prince- 
ton College. Naturally of a studious turn of mind, he took 
a high standing through his College course and was graduated 
with credit. After leaving College (and indeed for three 
months before) he was prostrated with a severe illness, from 
which he did not speedily rally, and broken in health he travel- 
led for a year, " over our disjointed country." On his return 
to Newark he entered the law office of Hon. Joseph P. Bradley 
and pursued his studies until September 1865, when he entered 
Harvard Law School. 

In June, 1868, he married Isabel, daughter of Edwin Van 
Antwerp, of Newark. In the spring of 1870 he went to Europe 
hoping to find improvement in his health ; but all such efforts 
were unhappily in vain. After another year of patient endur- 
ance and suffering, death claimed him as its own. On the 
afternoon of Monday, May 6, 1872, he entered into life abund- 
ant with the hope of a glorious immortality." 

A. B. and A. M. 

JOHN HENLEY SMITH now living retired in his birth- 
place, Washington, was a Confederate soldier and subse- 
quently, for a series of years, a merchant of San Francisco. 
He left Princeton in 1862, during our junior year, and joined 
the Confederate army that fall, serving, first, as Aide on the 
staff of Brig.-Gen. John Pegram, in the Army of the Tennessee, 
where he was in the Battle of Murfreesboro and many smaller 
engagements, covering the retreat of Bragg's army. Subse- 
quently he was Aide on the staff of Major-General Edward 
Johnson of the Army of Virginia, taking part in the fight at 
Brandy Station and connected operations, when he held the 
honorary rank of Captain. Thirdly, in 1864, he joined the 
Forty-third Regiment of Cavalry, commanded by Colonel John 
S. Mosby, known as Mosby's Partisan Rangers, and served till 
the close of the war in that organization, which was sur- 



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rendered at Winchester, Va., in April, 1865. He was paroled, 
and soon allowed to join his family then in Baltimore. 

His father, J. Bayard H. Smith, of an influential Philadelphia 
family, was born in Washington, was a graduate of Princeton 
of the Class of '29, and practiced Law in Washington many 
years, but during the Civil War removed to Baltimore. Hen- 
ley Smith himself was born February 24, 1843, at the home of 
his mother's father, Commodore John Dandridge Henley, 
U. S. Navy, after whom he was named. Commodore Henley 
was the nephew of Mrs. George Washington, our Classmate's 
great-grandmother being Elizabeth Dandridge, who was a 
sister of Mrs. Washington and who married a Henley. The 
ancestral Smiths first came to America from England about 
1630, nine generations back, and there has been since in the 
family no admixture of foreign blood. They settled first in 
Boston, but moving about a hundred years later to Philadel- 
phia, his great-grandfather, Jonathan Smith, married there 
Miss Bayard and took the name of Jonathan Bayard Smith. 
He graduated at Princeton in the Class of 1760, his diploma, as 
well as that of his degree of A.M., being in the possession of 
his descendant, who has also the sword which this ancestor 
carried through the Revolution as Colonel of a Pennsylvania 
regiment in the First Battalion. This ancestor was a member 
of the three Continental Congresses, and also a Trustee of the 
College of New Jersey for thirty years, as well as a Trustee of 
the University of Pennsylvania. 

Samuel Harrison Smith, our Classmate's grandfather, and 
son of Jonathan Bayard Smith, graduated at the University 
of Pennsylvania, and came to Washington with the Govern- 
ment from Philadelphia in the year 1800. Here he established 
the famed newspaper, The National Intelligencer, which he 
edited for many years. He served for a while in the Cabinet 
of President Monroe ; was President ten years of the Bank of 
Washington, besides being one of its incorporators, and was 
also President of the District branch of the Bank of the United 
States, afterwards abolished by Andrew Jackson. Samuel H. 
Smith married his cousin, Miss Margaret Bayard, daughter of 
Colonel John Bayard, also a Revolutionary hero, being Colonel 
of the Second Pennsylvania Regiment, besides being a Member 
and Speaker of the Continental Congress. He was for thirty 



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years a Trustee of Princeton and had four sons, brothers of 
Mrs. Smith's, all graduates of the College, besides the hus- 
band of another daughter, the elder Judge Andrew Kirkpat- 
rick, who was both a graduate and Trustee. Thus our Class- 
mate is thoroughly identified with our oldest traditions, having 
two great-grandfathers Trustees, one of whom was a graduate 
(1760), four great-uncles and one great-uncle by marriage 
who were graduates, in addition to his father J. B. H. Smith, 
of the Class of '29. 

Our Classmate, who prepared for college in Washington and 
entered Freshman, says he has never been to Princeton since 
the Class Meeting in 1866, owing to residing for many years 
at so great a distance, and the habit since of passing long 
periods out of the country. " I know no greater pleasure that 
could be given me," he writes, anent the invitation to the late 
reunion, " than to revisit under such auspices the scenes of 
those youthful days, long since past; to renew old and happy 
friendships, and see what the lapse of time may have done, 
for the individual, as well as for the place ; to meet once more, in 
older age, those with whom near three happy early years were 
spent ; again associate as in days of langsyne, and ' be boys 
again/ at least in recollection. Particularly for me would the 
pleasures be of the greatest, as my life since leaving Old Nas- 
sau has been chiefly spent at distant points, far removed from 
any connection with early times, with no opportunity for con- 
tinuation of the early friendships, or to make it possible to be 
in touch with the college or its associations." 

After the close of the war Mr. Smith went into business in 
Baltimore, as a cotton factor and general commission merchant, 
in the firm of Hall, Smith & Company, afterwards J. Henley 
Smith & Company. He moved in 1872 to San Francisco, and 
in 1873 went into business there, and so continued until 1891, 
when being in bad health he sold his interest, going to Europe 
in search of recovery by travel, etc. Since that time he has 
been without employment, and, although his health is happily 
regained, he cares not to find any. He settled permanently in 
Washington in 1897, where half the year is spent, the remain- 
der being passed in Europe. " The ' unfriendly world ' has 
been moderately kind and considerate, — has used me mildly, — 
my friends say, kindly. In any event, I am suffering from 



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neither surfeit nor want." He married in Baltimore, April 30, 
1867, Miss Mary Rebecca Young. " She still continues my 
good helpmate, but the one toast upon the festive occasion, ' to 
young Smith,' has failed to realize, as I am without children." 

In San Francisco Mr. Smith was elected several times to 
the Board of Supervisors, — the governing body of the city, — 
and was also Chairman for a number of years of its Finance 
Committee, controlling the expenditure of from five to six mil- 
lions yearly. He was the Democratic nominee for Mayor, but 
after a brief canvass retired, owing to disruptions in the party. 
He was Lieutenant-Colonel upon the Staff, both of Governor 
Irving and Governor Perkins, the latter now Senator. In the 
years of his leisure he has " run around the world," visiting 
Japan, China, India, Palestine, Egypt, and all the Mediterran- 
ean coast of Africa, as well as about all the European coun- 
tries, having crossed the Atlantic twenty-odd times for travel 
and pleasure, — besides being, at one time or another, in every 
State of this country, Canada, Mexico and Cuba. His " present 
pursuit " is " killing time, — enjoying the privilege of living 
without labor or worry, to eat, sleep and be merry as oppor- 
tunity offers." Permanent address, 1224 Connecticut avenue, 
Washington, D. C. 

Respecting the historically interesting letters mentioned by 
Judge Kirkpatrick, Mr. Smith writes as follows : " I have 
several thousand of the letters spoken of as being written to my 
grandfather and grandmother, Mr. and Mrs. Samuel Harrison 
Smith, and others of the family, by the different prominent 
persons of a hundred years or so ago. Known to exist under 
the lock and key of my parents, they have been only lately in- 
herited by me from them and are now allowed to be seen and 
their contents given from time to time to the public. Indeed by 
judges in such matters this accumulation is pronounced to be 
one of the most valuable collections of autograph letters, (not 
belonging to a Collector, but family letters) in the United 
States." 

KEV. HUGH SMYTHE, A. M., was born in the North of 
Ireland in 1834. His mother was English, his father Scotch- 
Irish. When almost sixteen years old he came to New York, 
and after living there for some time, decided to enter Princeton 



Princeton, Sixty-three 157 

College. During College he was a member of the Princeton 
Quartette, and in graduating was Class Poet. While in 
Princeton he reached the decision to enter the ministry, and 
for that purpose returned to Ireland and studied one year at 
Magee College at Londonderry in Ulster, living with his 
brother, Dr. Richard Smythe, who was a professor there at 
that time. He completed his course in theology in Geneva, 
Switzerland; returned to Ireland, and was called to a Church 
at White House, a suburb of Belfast. At White House he 
remained until he was called, in 1873, to the Seventh Presby- 
terian Church, Cincinnati, Ohio, where he had been heard 
when on a visit to this country. 

Mr. Smythe married, in 1874, Miss Sarah Scarborough, of 
Cincinnati. Two years afterwards he removed in response to 
a call from the Second Presbyterian Church at Elizabeth, New 
Jersey, which he accepted and of which he was pastor for the 
period of nine years. After leaving Elizabeth he spent some 
time in Europe. Upon his return he took charge of the Pres- 
byterian Church at Schooley's Mountain, spending his win- 
ters, however, in the South, in Bermuda, Florida, the West 
Indies, California, etc., for the benefit of his health, which for 
some years had become impaired. He died in Cincinnati of 
heart trouble, in September, 1901. 

Mr. Smythe, we are assured, always kept his love for Prince- 
ton, and some of his pleasantest days in these last years were 
at the meetings there. His location in New Jersey enabled him 
to be present at many of the Commencements ; he often wit- 
nessed the football games ; and was interested in every change 
the College had undergone and in every victory won by the stu- 
dents. It was pleasant to see his face among those who met at 
the Reunion in 1893, and no greeting was heartier than his. 

Smythe was the only one of our number not born in this 
country, if we except Freeman, born in India, but of course 
of purely American parentage and nationality. DuBois was of 
pure Swiss parentage, Swinnerton of pure English, and 
O'Hanlon of parents from the South of Ireland ; Moffat's par- 
entage was Scotch and American, Baird's American and Swiss. 
These six only of our. Class were and are of anything but 
entirely pure American blood, so far as their ancestry is given 



158 Fortieth-year Book 

in these pages, — and that too in no case less than a number of 
generations back, with the exception of McLeod Thomson, 
whose grandfather was Scotch ; King, English and Young 
whose grandparents were English and Welsh. In this distinc- 
tively American collection it is instructive to observe the 
thorough mingling of Saxon and Norman English with Scotch 
and Scotch-Irish, in blend with Netherlands Dutch and Pala- 
tine German, Huguenot French, Puritan, Cavalier and Quaker 
— together with one name from Franco-English Guernsey, one 
from Norway, as stated, and one Polish. By himself stood our 
Choctaw, McFarlan, the only one of other than Caucasian race. 

A. B. and A. M. 

SAMUEL HENRY SOUTHARD, born in Newark, N. J., 
May 29, 1844, died at Trenton, November 2, 1869. Already 
at the Triennial Meeting, Southard was reported as " quite 
unwell, and unable to engage in any professional pursuits." 
His brother, James L. Southard, of Winchester, Mass., sends 
the following touching lines : " He was a good boy and young 
man, though self-accusing and melancholy, as you probably 
remember. While his mind was normal he gave himself to 
the Lord, and thought seriously of studying for the ministry. 
He died in the communion of the Christian Church. We laid 
him away to rest one afternoon in Mt. Pleasant Cemetery, at 
Newark, 1869. The pathos of it all seems fresh after the 
lapse of four and thirty years ; however, it will seem brighter 
further on." 

The son of Henry Southard, he was great-grandson of that 
Henry Southard who was Congressman from New Jersey for 
twenty-one years, by successive re-elections, voluntarily retir- 
ing in 1821 ; and grand-nephew of Samuel L. Southard, Gov- 
ernor of New Jersey, United States Senator, and Secretary 
of the Navy under President John Quincy Adams. 

His preparation was at Mount Retirement, Sussex county, 
N. J., and Newark Academy. He entered Freshman, but was 
out one year from ill health. He took up medicine, but his 
failing condition obliged him to abandon such work, and he 
never married. 

The Class Historian remembers affording Southard a little 
cheer in the matter that lay so heavily on his mind, in a con- 



Princeton, Sixty-three 159 

versation during the religious interest, for which he showed 
an affecting gratefulness. A. B. 

EDWARD PEEBLES STANFIELD refers us to the 
" Record " of 1866-7 for the initial facts of his career, which 
are to this effect: He is the son of Thomas S. and Nancy H. 
Stanfield and was born where he now lives, at South Bend, 
Indiana, December 25, 1842. He fitted in his native town and 
entered Freshman, rooming at 31 North; and in 1861 left for 
the war. He married, August 25, 1865, Miss Anna E. Harris. 
From October that year till the next April he was studying at 
Ann Arbor in the University of Michigan Law School, and 
was then, in 1867, practicing as a lawyer, the address of his 
firm being Anderson & Stanfield, South Bend. 

From this point the Class will best enjoy his being allowed 
to speak for himself : " I have but little to add. After prac- 
ticing law about two years I, in 1868, engaged in the retail 
lumber and sash and door manufacturing business; — this I 
continued for thirty years, retiring in 1898, with heaps of 
experience, but no fortune. But, like Mrs. Wiggs, I am thank- 
ful for many afflictions I am free from, — corns for instance. 

My wife, whose companionship I possessed for thirty-five 
years, died in 1900. I have three children, — none have died, — 
two daughters and a son. One of the former and the son are 
married, and I am twice a grandfather, the first time about 
three years ago. In regard to forebears and Revolutionary 
antecedents, I have learned that my mother had an uncle 
named McClintock, who served one year with the Virginia 
troops, — if that will do? 

I was prepared for College by Rev. A. Y. Moore, who still 
lives and, although over eighty years old, is yet erect in form 
and seemingly in his sixties. I left College for good during 
the first session of the Junior year to enter the Volunteer 
army. I had left once before, but that was forced on me 
because I was so intimate with Zabriskie, Hueston, Van Dyke, 
Van Cleve, et al. My service in the army was from Septem- 
ber, 1861, to December, 1865, when I was mustered out. 
During that time I was Adjutant of the Forty-eighth Indiana, 
with rank of First Lieutenant. 

Since leaving College I have met only three or four of the 



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Class ; — I talked with Mat. Lowrie about fifteen minutes 
many years ago, and was visited by Van Cleve for one day 
at a later time. I met Henry M. Williams once, some time in 
May, 1862, during the campaign of Corinth, Miss. I encoun- 
tered Rowland Cox at Savannah just as I left the service, — 
I had seen him the year before, in Alabama. I see you have 
marked a ' D ' after the name, — prominent in the law in New 
York City. I had seen no notice of his death. He delivered 
a lecture on ' Trade Marks ' at the World's Fair in Chicago, 
and the next day the Chicago Tribune had his picture. Such 
things are generally poor, but this was especially awful. I 
cut it out and sent it to Cox with a few remarks about the 
effect of age on the ' slick ' Aide-de-Camp I once saw down 
in ' ole Alabama.' He replied immediately, in a very witty 
vein. 

I had a short correspondence, many years ago, with 
' Teddy ' Van Dyke, the Class Gunpowder-plotter, — I sup- 
pose you know that he is associated with our President, Teddy 
Roosevelt, in a book on the ' Deer Family ' in this country, 
lately published. About a year before the death of J. C. Hue- 
ston, I read that a man of that name had been made Manager 
of the Associated Press. I wrote to his address, and asked him 
if he was the little imp Hueston of the Class of '63? He replied 
that he was so very busy that he could only say that he was 
the same individual, and would promise to write more fully 
later. His death intervened, and as he did not write, I know 
nothing of his family, or of his own life. He surely had 
energy and ability to reach the position he held, from the 
wreck of the Civil war. As to Sayre, — Van Cleve must know 
all about him, as they were quite close in neighborhood for 
several years in Pennsylvania. I remember how old Syl- 
vanus's bald head seemed, in the Classroom ; — but I have 
learned to have respect for the bald heads ! I don't envy you 
the job of wading through such letters as this, and finding it 
mostly chaff." 

The job of wading back thus up the stream of time has been 
like paddling again in boyhood brooks, and what he calls 
chaff are really seeds of grain gold. I give this instead of 
merely a digest only to show how rich these sands have been. 

Mr. Stanfield was appointed the first Comptroller of his 



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city under its new charter, in 1901, serving during two years, 
when the opposite party cut short his political career. 

A. B. and A. M. 

ABRAHAM H. STRICKLER, M. D., is a practicing physi- 
cian in Waynesboro, Pennsylvania, where he is interested like- 
wise extensively in business and financial operations. 

Dr. Strickler was born January 23, 1840, near Greencastle, 
in Antrim township, Franklin county, Pennsylvania. He was 
the youngest of four sons of Joseph and Mary (Snively) 
Strickler. 

He entered Freshman with us, August II, i860. The Col- 
lege year began early in those primitive days, and we had 
short vacations, compared with the indulgence of these in- 
dolent times. Six weeks was all our play-spell. Strickler 
was chosen one of the Junior Orators from Whig Hall, and 
he graduated with the Class, in 1866, receiving his Master's 
degree in Course, at the conclusion of his medical studies. 

After graduation he proceeded at once to New York and 
during the next three years studied medicine in Bellevue 
Hospital Medical College, where he graduated in 1866. While 
pursuing this course he was a Medical Cadet in the Union 
army in 1864, and while yet an undergraduate performed the 
duties of Assistant Surgeon at Lincoln Hospital, at Wash- 
ington. 

He commenced private practice at Mercersburg, Pa., in 1866, 
and remained there five years. In 1871 he located in Waynes- 
boro, on the southern edge of the State, west of Gettysburg. 
Here he has ever since been prominently engaged in the prac- 
tice of his profession, interesting himself in public affairs to 
some extent, contributing his assistance in the business under- 
takings of the locality and likewise in religious concerns. In 
1893 and 1894 he was a Member of the House of Representa- 
tives of Pennsylvania, and he has been influentially interested 
in the industrial and other institutions of the place. He is a 
Director of two of Waynesboro's largest manufacturing in- 
dustries, of one of which he is the President. He is a Director 
of the Citizens' National Bank, and President of the Board of 
Health, which latter position he has held for ten years. 

Dr. Strickler married, in 1870, Miss Clara Anna Besore. 



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Their children have been two sons and one daughter, one of 
the sons having died in infancy. 

Present address, Waynesboro, Pa. A. B. and A. M. 

SAMUEL STANHOPE STRYKER has been ever since 
1868 established in the practice of medicine in what we used 
to know as West Philadelphia, long since included within the 
corporate limits. 

He was born in Trenton, N. J., May 4, 1842, and says, 
" There was nothing remarkable about my early life ; I was 
simply plain old Sam Stryker ; fond of all kinds of sports, and 
a great lover of horses, — am yet." 

His father, Samuel S. S. Stryker, was born in Princeton and 
was named for President Smith, with whose family the 
Strykers were intimate. His mother was Alary Scudder, born 
at Scudder's Falls, on the Delaware in Mercer county, N. J., 
descended from Thomas Scudder, born in England, who came 
over in 1635. On the father's side the ancestor was Jan 
Strijcker, who came from Holland in 1652, and settled in New 
Amsterdam, later in Midwont, Long Island. 

He prepared under Rev. S. M. Hamil at Lawrenceville with 
Van Cleve and graduated there in i860, when he entered 
among the Immortals, spent three years in the Olympian seats 
and graduated in their company. Stryker says, " It seems to 
me that I have always been on hand at all our Class Reunions, 
but I cannot remember much about them." (It is queer about 
our Reunions ; — see, under Holmes.) 

Deciding for physic, he went into the office of Dr. Charles 
Hodge, Jr., in Trenton, to begin the study. With his precepter 
he went to the front at the end of the first year when the call 
came for surgeons and assistants during the fight in the Wil- 
derness. To this army practice he added a rare experience dur- 
ing the cholera epidemic while serving as Resident Physician 
to the Philadelphia Hospital, to which he was elected after his 
graduation, M. D., at the University of Pennsylvania. He en- 
tered that Medical School in the fall of 1864, graduated in 
March, 1866, served two years in the Hospital mentioned, and 
then set up in West Philadelphia. He was visiting Obstetri- 
cian to the same Hospital for sixteen years, and he has been 
for a number of years, and is still, a member of the Medical 



Princeton, Sixty-three 163 

Staff of the Presbyterian Hospital. We know Sam means it 
when he says, " What I have accomplished during my medical 
career, has come through patience and perseverance, by an 
earnest devotion to my profession and love of it, and a faith- 
ful, constant attention to my work. I have gained the con- 
fidence of the people and have gathered around me a host of 
friends. I have every reason to feel that my medical life has 
not been a failure." 

Our Classmate has received many marks of civic and pro- 
fessional recognition. He has been for twenty-eight years a 
Member of the Philadelphia Board of School Directors and for 
a number of years has represented the Alumni in the Board of 
Managers of the University Hospital. He is a Fellow of the 
College of Physicians, and a Member of the Pathological, the 
Obstetrical, the Pediatric, and of the Philadelphia County 
Medical societies. In the historical and patriotic direction, he 
has been for three years Vice-President of the Holland Society 
of New York representing Philadelphia; President of the 
Netherlands Society of Philadelphia, and Honorary Vice-Presi- 
dent and Member of the Board of Governors of the Princeton 
Club in Philadelphia. He is likewise a Member each, of the 
Society of the Sons of the Revolution, of the Colonial Wars, of 
the Historical Society of Philadelphia, and of the Fairmount 
Park Art Association. 

But what are these honors? He was the Dear Boy of us 
all, so full of laugh and jolly humor, with that curative smile 
that took away the drear burden of dull tasks, and helped 
make us all happy, making him a Healer before he knew 
medicine. The present writer used to like to adorn his Mathe- 
matical Note Book with pictures of quadrants and globes, but 
hated the work of writing up the weary record of sines and co- 
sines and things he did not understand. Sam took the book and 
wrote up the notes in his easy hand ; and good Duff, passed it, 
because of the manifest kindness of such a deed ! And so he 
has been doing good and curing miseries every since, just by 
his goodness. Instead of rank pills and bitter doses or sharp 
scalpels, to disgust and to cut, he has carried flasks of good 
humor, phials from which dropped tender consideration and 
consoling faith, plasters of patience and warm applications of 
sympathy. 



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He stepped from the doors of the hospital, and the doors and 
hearts of West Philadelphia opened to him. He has given them 
longer lease of life, he has saved their infants, eased the pains of 
childhood, and men have thought it comfort even to die, if Sam 
Stryker could be at their bedsides ! He is the depositary of their 
holiest confessions, the only one who could explain their 
deepest mysteries, the only one who can appreciate their sad- 
dest sorrows. And he has been a source of happiness to them 
through it all, always bringing relief, hope, encouragement, 
when he came. 

He has his happy home at the Northeast corner of Walnut 
and 39th streets, Philadelphia. 

Dr. Stryker married Miss Grace M. Bartlett of New York, 
April 11, 1877. Four sons have been given them, of whom 
three have now been received back by the Giver, and the 
youngest alone remains, Abner Bartlett, who is in business 
life. The first son died at birth, and the third, Malcolm, when 
still a child, September, 1883. Among several painful things 
in the course of the preparation of this book, not the least so 
to the writer is to announce to the members of the Class that 
Dr. Stryker's second son, bearing his own name, was taken 
away with great suddenness by an attack of acute sickness so 
lately as March 29th last. A fine young medical man of twenty- 
four, he graduated at the old College in 1902, and was studying 
his profession at the University of Pennsylvania. Surely this 
draws forth the respectful sympathy of us all. 

Dr. Stryker is our Class President. He writes with refer- 
ence to our officers that he does not remember our having a 
Class Treasurer after Westcott, our transactions calling for no 
special need of it. He says, " Up to fifteen years ago I don't 
think we had any regular Officers," (at least since the early 
days). "At a reunion at that time I was elected President 
and Huey was made Secretary. At any meetings we may 
have had before, a Chairman, I think, was selected for that 
particular time." And he adds, — " My mind is very foggy 
about the Class Boy, and the Class Cup, and the Class Stamp. 
It is particularly unfortunate that so little appears to be 
remembered about these matters. They would be items of 
especial interest in a book such as you are preparing." 

A. B. and A.M. 



Princeton, Sixty-three 165 

ISAAC FISHER SUTPHEN belonged to a gifted family 
of scholars and professional men, graduates of Princeton, 
among whom prevailed a singular and mournful fatality. John 
Crater Sutphen, M. D., of the Class of '56, a physician of Plain- 
field, died in 1878. Rev. Morris Crater Sutphen, D.D., also of 
'56, who was our tutor in Greek, filled pastorates of six years 
each in Philadelphia, Spring Garden Church, and New York, 
the Scotch Church, but died in 1875. His son, Morris Crater 
Sutphen, Jr., of the Class of '90, was Associate Professor of 
Latin in Johns Hopkins, but lost his life by drowning at At- 
lantic Highlands in August, 1901. Our Classmate, the younger 
brother of the two first mentioned, who for the four years sat 
next the writer on the benches of the Class rooms, was one of 
the earliest of our number to leave the world, and his death 
made a painful impression. 

He was born at Bedminster, in Somerset county, N. J., June 
20, 1843. He was the sixth son of Gilbert Blair and Jane Cra- 
ter Sutphen. He was fitted for College by Dr. William Blauvelt 
of Lamington, in the same county, took the full College course, 
and intended to go through the Seminary with a view to a Mis- 
sionary life, but died " a triumphant death," March 4, 1864. 

He had been teaching that year in Professor Henry 
Gregory's school in Philadelphia, where he had begun the 
study of theology under his brother, Dr. Sutphen. He was 
taken ill at his brother's house, but was carried home to die 
at his father's in Bedminster. He " submissively yielded all 
when the Master called him to a higher service." He lies in 
the family lot in the Lamington cemetery. A. B. 

HENRY ULYATE SWINNERTON. I have been for the 
last thirty-six years Pastor of the Presbyterian Church at 
Cherry Valley, N. Y., a village in Otsego county, which hap- 
pens to be the first place settled by English-speaking people in 
Central New York. It was the scene of a massacre in 1778. 
Its history may be read in many publications, and I wrote a 
Historical Account of the Church in 1876. Adjoining and 
formerly part of it, is Roseboom, where my wife was born. It 
is in a mountain climate on the Susquehannah watershed, 
twelve miles south of the Central railroad, and commands 
views towards the Adirondacks, the Catskills and as far as 



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Massachusetts and Vermont. I have had very much of quiet 
happiness here, though I have accomplished little beyond 
raising a family of girls. My work 'has been like a school, 
sending out successive sets of young people to go elsewhere. 
One of our Princeton Trustees, Dr. Eli F. Cooley, was Pastor 
here early in the last century, and his first wife lies here, a 
connection of several of our Classmates, — " Hannah, daughter 
of Colonel William and Sarah Scudder, Princeton, N. J." Dr. 
Eliphalet Nott began here his career as Educator and Preacher, 

As to my ancestry, ours is one of the very old Commoner 
names seated in Staffordshire at Swinnerton and Hilton 
Halls, their effigies remaining in the Churches, though the 
estates have long since passed to other houses by marriage. 
Younger branches carried the name to various parts, and one 
at Tetbury, in Gloucestershire, George, five generations back, 
was my ancestor ; whose son came to London, where, in Monk- 
well street, my grandfather, a scholar of the Bluecoat school, 
was born. He moved to Colnbrook a few miles from London, 
where my father was born, his mother being Sarah Ulyate of 
a Lincolnshire family settled in London. The old Swynner- 
tons, who figure in Domesday Book, and whose barony be- 
came extinct in 1338, were in the uprising against Piers 
Gaveston and their battle standard is extant which waved at 
Crecy and Poictiers. Doctor Thomas Swinnerton of Oxford 
and Cambridge, died in exile at Emden, a Puritan refuge in 
Germany, in the time of Mary, having written, in 1534, " A 
Muster of Scysmatycke Bisshoppes of Rome, otherwyse nam- 
ing Themselves Popes. Much Necesserye to be Redde of al 
Kynges their Subiects." 

My father, who impaired his education by running away 
from an odious Boarding School, turned his back on Monarchy 
and came to the land of the free and equal in 1833, settling in 
Newark. He was a heraldic painter, an avocation for which 
there was small field in a democratic country, but he found 
employment in Newark ornamenting coaches with coats of 
arms, hit or miss ; and when the panic of 1837 broke up busi- 
ness in Newark he found a field at Catskill-on-the-Hudson. 
And so it happened that I was born a New Yorker in Rip Van 
Winkle's village, October 4, 1839. 

My mother, Fanny Rutter, born in Beaulieu, Hants, was 



Princeton, Sixty-three 167 

reared at Lymington, in the Church of which Cardinal Wool- 
sey was Rector in his early life. She was of a common-sense 
sort of piety, and connected herself as one of the earliest mem- 
bers of the First Dutch Reformed Church in Newark. Fred- 
erick T. Frelinghuysen was the enlightening Superintendent 
of our Sunday School, and grounded me in theology and the 
Bible. I went to the Newark Academy, both on Broad and on 
High streets, under Wm. R. Howell and George B. Sears, but 
I had just begun Latin when an opportunity offered of a 
place in the large hardware house of Macknet and Wilson, in 
which I spent over four years, till I was eighteen, venting my 
literary tastes in the Newark Athenaeum, a debating society, 
and making valuable use of the Newark Library Association, 
while acquiring some business training. 

The Revival of 1857-58 powerfully altered my bents, and I 
suddenly resolved to study for the Ministry. About the same 
time circumstances led me into the Third Presbyterian 
Church, of Which Dr. E. R. Craven was Pastor, and with his 
help I was soon preparing under Rev. S. Hutchings for Prince- 
ton, of which he was, and is, a Trustee. I took only a year and 
a half; we stopped at Professor Duffield's, and Duff soon 
found that I could not do my algebra or conjugate oida; still 
I went in, as you found. I " showed fight " a couple of times 
against ancient abuses, led the choir after Baird and Ben. 
Morehouse left, sang songs with you all, carved names on 
canes, and roomed with " Dave " Frazer at " Home," 32 East ; 
and afterwards with " Johnnie " Freeman, on the entry with 
Ned Dennis, Zabriskie and Haines (at "Temperance Hall"), 
Sam and Joe. Pennington and " Ingie " Washburn, — a choice 
lot of us all together. The tuneful Binninger was then in the 
land, and Nimmo was a gentleman. My only distinction was 
to edit the " Lit." once, and once to take first in Composition. 
Yet Princeton did me good, very great good ; — and happy ! 

I was very sad the first year in the Seminary, rooming in 
town and missing so many of the fellows, but afterwards 
enjoyed it greatly, with a very pleasant lot, among whom 
were Sparhawk Jones, now of Calvary Church, Philadelphia, 
Griffin of Johns Hopkins, J. S. Dennis, J. Gibson Johnson, 
et al. I spent one vacation at the City Point Hospitals 
and two in the Recruiting service. In 1866 I supplied the First 



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Church at Wilmington, Del., then preached a year at Morris- 
ville, Pa., when I came to Cherry Valley, in 1868. It being the 
earliest seat of classical teaching anywhere hereabouts, I felt 
much interest in aiding the re-establishment of the ancient 
Academy, (in which, after the Revolution Dr. Nott taught), 
lecturing, teaching and upholding, variously ; and perhaps in 
recognition of this in 1877 Union College gave me Ph.D. I 
began writing for the press before I left College and have 
published in both secular and religious publications more or 
less ever since, being a constant contributor for some years to 
a Philadelphia Weekly under the pen-name of John Martin 
Ratchett. 

In June 1871 I married Levantia Livingston, daughter of 
Henry Roseboom. She is of the old New York and Albany 
Knickerbocker, and of Massachusetts Bay and Connecticut 
Puritan stock. We lost our first child, a boy. Of our five 
daughters three are Wells College girls, one a Wells Prep, 
and student of music, and one a graduate of Dana, Morristown. 
The last is married to Ralph Emerson Lum, Esq., of Newark 
and Chatham, N. J. They have a son, our only grandchild, 
Philip L. S., who on Bunker Hill day last year being born, 
did " lift the cup " as Class boy of Columbia '00. 

I went across in 1886, took the tour of the Continent and 
visited the old places of ancestral interest, and I have visited 
places of interest in Canada and in this country, corresponding 
with newspapers as I went along. I was in the famous Detroit 
General Assembly, and at the Centennial Assembly at Phila- 
delphia in 1901, and several others. Few things in my life 
have given me more pleasure than the work I have done on 
this book, especially my success in getting track of and bring- 
ing once more together so large a proportion of our Class- 
mates ; perhaps it will be my monument. Having no sons to 
continue the professional succession, I take satisfaction in the 
fact that my nephew, George Brown Swinnerton, is Pastor of 
the fine Church at Oneida, N. Y., his son Alan perpetuating the 
name of the earliest of our tribe, in England ; and two of my 
nieces are wives of ministers, Rev. Harry S. Willoughby, of 
the Reformed Church, Fort Plain, N. Y., and Rev. Charles 
Alvin Smith of Peck Chapel, Church of the Covenant, 
Washington. A. B. and A. M. 



Princeton, Sixty-three 169 

JOHN T. TEMPLE is in the legal profession at Trenton, 
N. J. He was present in the procession of graybeards who 
marched in dignified array at the head of the column to the 
Athletic Field to witness the ball game, last Commencement 
Saturday. The only record available is from the Class Book 
of 1866-67. 

" Prepared for College at Lawrenceville, N. J. Entered 
Sophomore year. Roomed one year at 49 N., and the other in 
town. Upon leaving Princeton he spent one year in the Law 
Office of Hon. E. W. Scudder, of Trenton, after which he 
entered the Law School at Albany, N. Y., and graduated June 
1863. During the same month he was admitted to practice. 
He then spent a short time in study in a law office in New 
York, and has since been in Trenton, most of the time in 
business. Is married and has been for three years. P. O. 
Address, Trenton, N. J. 



MeLEOD WILSON THOMSON was engineer of the right 
of way of the Pennsylvania Railroad company and one of the 
most prominent citizens of Altoona. He died March nth., 
last year, 1903, of apoplexy, perhaps superinduced by the 
strain of an important case at law in which he was giving 
testimony in chief for the company, lasting for hours. 

He was the son of Samuel and Mary (Kyner) Thomson, 
and was born in the Cumberland valley, in Franklin county, 
Pennsylvania, March 25, 1843. He entered Sophomore half- 
advanced, distinguished himself in mathematics, and went 
with the contingent of the Senior class at the opening of that 
year to join the Union army, with promise of receiving his 
diploma in 1863, of which, however, no record appears in the 
General Catalogue. He enlisted as private, Company H, 
Twenty-first New Jersey Infantry. Two months later his 
scholarship procured him recognition and he was detailed as 
Chief Clerk of the Division at Headquarters, Sixth Corps, 
Army of the Potomac. Nine months later he received a second 
mark of recognition in the same line, — appointment as Chief 
Clerk of the Coast Survey. The war ended, he entered the 
Columbia College School of Mines and on graduation, in 1867, 
he spent some months in the Bessemer Steel works at Troy, 

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N. Y. He then took charge of the steel plant of the Collins 
company of Connecticut, which he successfully managed until 
1870, when he became auditor for the Selma, Rome and Dalton 
Railroad company in Alabama. In 1872 he resigned and or- 
ganized a company which erected a steel plant at Cumberland, 
Md., of which he was manager until 1879. 

Mr. Thomson entered the service of the Pennsylvania Rail- 
road company in March 1880, and was engaged in surveys and 
construction of ways on the Western division of the road 
till June, 1883. He was then appointed Assistant Engineer of 
Maintenance of Way, with headquarters at Altoona, and 
served as such until 1883, when he was made Chief Engineer 
of that department and several years ago he was appointed to 
the important position he held at his death, that of Engineer 
of Right of Way. He was a railroad engineer of great ability, 
and much of the work of changing the roadway of that great 
line was done under his direction. Upon engineering and 
the manufacture of steel he was an authority in high regard 
throughout the State. 

A Republican in politics Mr. Thomson never aspired to 
office ; he was an active member of the Second Presbyterian 
Church at Altoona, of which he was one of the Ruling Elders, 
and for years President of the Trustees. In his places of au- 
thority and respect he was what we always knew him at 
Princeton, quiet and easily approached, and he stood high in 
the esteem of the employees, as well as of the officials of the 
great road. The newspaper from which the facts above given 
are taken, in its appreciative notice speaks of him as one who 
" loved his home, was a devoted husband and father, and was 
respected by all who shared his acquaintance." And it testifies 
that " in his death the city of Altoona loses a respected and 
good citizen and the railroad a valued official." 

Mr. Thomson married, April 20, 1871, Emma Garver, daugh- 
ter of Samuel Garver, of Corker Hill, Franklin county, Pa., who 
survives him with three sons ; — William Payton, of Philadel- 
phia ; Samuel G., of Altoona, and McLeod, who is in the pres- 
ent Sophomore Class at Princeton. 

His great grandfather came to this country with eleven 
children from his native town of Glasgow, Scotland, in 1773, 
and settled in Franklin county. A.B. and A.M. 



Princeton, Sixty-three 171 

BENJAMIN THOMPSON was from Crawfordsville and 
Locust Grove, Iowa. His story is perhaps the most mysteri- 
ous of any of our Classmates. He entered the Class in the 
Freshman year, and spent the whole four years with us, room- 
ing - at 29 West College. He graduated and was given his 
Master's degree in course, and his name appears in the Gen- 
eral Catalogue in the italics which are used to indicate the 
clerical profession. Yet there is no clear evidence that he be- 
came a Minister. He entered the Theological Seminary at 
Alleghany and was there the session of '63-4, but he failed 
to return to the Seminary, and nothing is known there of him 
further. He was licensed to preach by the Presbytery of 
Alleghany, April 6, 1864, but in April, 1870, his name was 
dropped from the roll of Licentiates because no information 
could be gained of his whereabouts or employment, either by 
advertisement or letter. Neither has the industrious search of 
the Class Historian resulted in anything, beyond that in 1866 
he was reported to have married. A. B. and A. M. 

JAMES PURNELL TOADVINE was one of those whose 
course with us was brief and whose life career was all too 
short for the realization of many of his ambitions. He 
had filled out its essentials already when our Triennial 
" Record " was published, and the account it gives is ratified 
as correct in all material details by the data which have been 
furnished at the present time by his brother, Edward Stanley 
Toadvin, of the firm of Toadvin & Bell, Attorneys, Salis- 
bury, Maryland, a graduate of Princeton, Class of '69, who 
mentions that his brother was " distinguished for memory and 
knowledge of history." 

He was born at Salisbury, Somerset county, Maryland, on 
the Eastern Shore, January 4, 1842, the son of Purnell and 
Amanda (Parsons) Toadvine. The name is French; the first 
ancestor settled near Salisbury about 1666, and came from 
Guernsey, one of the French Channel islands, ancient pos- 
sessions of Britain ; — Britons of French blood and speech. 

The later spelling is a return to the early French form. 

He attended Salisbury Academy, and prepared at Lamb's 
school near Baltimore. He entered a Junior in August 1861. 
He had been married a short time before, and when the Class 



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graduated he had already taken up the study of his profession, 
as he wrote jestingly, " room at graduation, — a law office in 
Belvidere." He had finished his legal studies and was already 
admitted to the bar of New Jersey in 1877. He also reports 
that he at that time had one child four years old. He received 
the honorary degree of A.M. from Princeton in 1868. He prac- 
tised law at Belvidere until his death on February 22, 1876. 

Mr. Toadvine married Miss Lucy M. Sharp of Belvidere, and 
left surviving, a son, Alison, born April 8, 1862, Josephine A., 
and E. Stanley Toadvine, Jr. The thanks of the Class His- 
torian are due to Mr. E. Stanley Toadvin for obliging assist- 
ance in tracing several of our Classmates in his vicinity whose 
whereabouts or fate were very baffling. Hon. A. M. '68. 

LAWRENCE TURNBULL, founder and editor of the 
New Eclectic Magazine, now discontinued, was born in Balti- 
more county, Maryland. " No comet, earthquake or other 
' prodigy ' signalised the event " when it occurred, April 23, 
1843. His father, Henry C. Turnbull, grandson of Dr. Nisbet, 
at one time President of Dickinson College, was the son of 
William Turnbull, a resident of Philadelphia, who with Robert 
Morris and some others was instrumental in the introduction 
to practical use of anthracite coal, which before his day was 
regarded as valueless, owing to ignorance of the use of grates. 
His mother was Anna G. Smith, of Philadelphia, related to 
Mrs. Ferguson, of Graeme Park, who ministered to the needs 
of the Continental army during the bitter winter at Valley 
Forge. 

Turnbull was prepared for College by M. A. Newell at Balti- 
more. He entered College late in the Class's history there, — 
Junior half-advanced, — when great numbers of students had 
already left, or were leaving, to take part on either side in the 
great Civil war, when the disturbances and alienations of the 
struggle were active; and he left College in consequence of 
ill health several months before the close of the course. Being 
of Southern sympathies also, he was cut off more or less from 
intimate association with his Classmates, — and he writes, — 

" I have always regretted that my College days fell upon 
such evil times, for the friends that one makes in that halcyon 
time are always, I think, the best and the most constant that 



Princeton, Sixty-three 173 

one is apt to find in this hard world. I am grateful that not- 
withstanding these unfortunate circumstances I found some 
valued friends among my Classmates, and received from all 
of them consideration and kindness." Inditing to the repre- 
sentative of the Class in the matter of this Book, he proceeds: 

" The world has used me kindly, — far better than my 
deserts. Of myself it mortifies me to tell you, that I know 
nothing that will ' reflect glory or particular honor on the 
Class.' Being a neighbour of mine on the recitation benches 
and in Chapel, you know that I was not born great; I have 
not achieved greatness, nor have I had it thrust upon me. I 
have remained through my threescore years a very common- 
place individual. The nearest I ever came to a political office 
was to decline the nomination for Mayor of Baltimore from 
the Prohibition Party. If, however, I have done nothing to 
confer notoriety or distinction on our body, I trust I have 
abstained from doing anything to bring upon it reproach or 
dishonor. My feeble health, which compelled my withdrawal 
before graduation, (though I got my diploma), has handi- 
capped me all through my life, and forbidden me to seek or 
assume any public responsibility. 

After we separated at Princeton I travelled for a couple 
of years abroad ; then dabbled a little with commercial life in 
New York, — from which I retired without any burdensome 
reward. Returning to Baltimore, I founded, edited and pub- 
lished the New Eclectic Magazine, a monthly by which I 
hoped to raise the literary and moral standards of my country- 
men. I found great pleasure in the work and reaped quite a 
harvest of eulogistic criticism ; but after three years' labor in 
the field, — which yielded a considerable deficit in dollars, — I 
was compelled to abandon a project which I had hoped might 
prove my lifework and which offered a fine opportunity for 
useful influence. 

I then read law, and was admitted to the Baltimore Bar, 
when I practiced, in a mild way, giving most of my time, 
however, to real estate operations, until a few years ago, when 
my health again interposed and compelled a complete with- 
drawal from active work, — since which time I have spent an- 
other year abroad with my family, principally in Rome. 

Last winter there, I had the pleasure of meeting by invita- 



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tion, with my wife, Ex-Queen Margherita, of Italy, who is 
easily the most accomplished, high-minded and beloved of 
contemporary sovereigns of Europe. We received the invita- 
tion on account of my wife having written a novel on Venice, 
which the Queen had read. She talked with us, in perfect 
English most intelligently on American affairs. 

On January 24, 1871, I married a daughter of Mr. Edwin C. 
Litchfield of Brooklyn, N. Y. We have had five children, four 
of whom, two sons and two daughters, are living, grown to 
manhood and womanhood. One son, Percy, of brilliant prom- 
ise, died in his ninth year, — and in his memory his mother 
and I founded the Percy Turnbull Lectureship on Poetry, in 
the Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, on which founda- 
tion a course of lectures is delivered each year by some dis- 
tinguished author from home or abroad, which are afterwards 
published in memorial volumes. Among the Lecturers have 
been Edmund Clarence Stedman, — who inaugurated the Lec- 
tureship with his course on ' The Nature and Elements of 
Poetry ; ' Professor Jebb of Cambridge University, England, 
who lectured on 'Greek Poetry;' Professor Tyrrell, of Dublin 
University, on ' Latin Poetry,' Charles Eliot Norton, on 
' Dante;' Professor Lanman, on 'Indian Poetry,' (Sanscrit); 
Professor Brunetiere of Paris, on ' French Poetry ;' Hamilton W. 
Mabie on ' American Poetry ; ' and others. 

This coming year Count de Gubernatis, Professor of Italian 
literature at the University of Rome, is to deliver a course on 
the " Poetry of the Italian Renaissance." In conclusion, — direct- 
ing surely to us all, — I am heartily glad to have had news of 
you, and would be pleased to hear more particularly from 
you, if you should have time for a friendly letter, — or better 
still, to welcome you in person, if inclination or duty should 
ever bring you to this neighborhood. 

Residence, 1530 Park avenue, Baltimore, in winter; in sum- 
mer, 'La Paix,' six miles out, on ancestral acres. At either 
home I will be delighted to welcome you or any old Class- 
mate whenever kind fate may bring you this way." 

A. B. and A.M. 

ROBERT STANSBURY VAN CLEVE is a clergyman of 
the Presbyterian Church for a long series of years happily 



Princeton, Sixty-three 175 

settled at Erie, Pennsylvania. The Class will like to hear from 
him as he speaks for himself: 

" I have found it difficult to persuade myself that anything 
in my commonplace history would contribute to the interest of 
the contemplated publication. I was born at Beaver Meadow, 
Carbon county, Pennsylvania, October 16, 1842, — and it was 
Sunday about seven P. M. I remember the occasion dis- 
tinctly, and still regret that I arrived too late to attend evening 
service in the Presbyterian Church, of which my revered 
father was an Elder. Subsequently, however, I was bap- 
tised in the Church by the Pastor, the Rev. Daniel Gaston, 
who in later times removed to Philadelphia and to-day the 
Gaston Presbyterian Church of that city is a monument to his 
memory. 

I was named Robert Stansbury after an uncle by marriage, 
Dr. Robert M. Stansbury, then of Brooklyn, N. Y., and a 
greater honor was never conferred on any man, (than by the 
baby on the Doctor, he means). I have had a number of an- 
cestors, and so far as I know, they were all right. I am now 
the only ancestor left, and you can judge from what you know 
of me what the rest must have been. My father's uncle, John 
Van Cleve, M. D., was a Trustee of the College, and was buried 
in the Princeton cemetery. I presume he was a good man, or 
he would not have held that honorable office or been buried 
in that Sacred Dust. I guess I shall have to tie to him, and let 
it go. 

When I was about four years old my father removed with 
his family to Trenton, N. J., and there I laid the foundation 
of my subsequent greatness principally in the old Trenton 
Academy, where my indolence, friskiness and general incom- 
petency were thrashed out of me by almost daily administra- 
tions of the rod; — (how they did ' lick ' in those days) ! 

I ' prepared ' for College at Lawrenceville, and entered 
Freshman in the Fall of 1859. The surviving members of '63 
will recall my distinguished career in the class-room at Prince- 
ton. I hope it will not be forgotten that I was Editor of the 
October number of our issue of the ' Nassau Literary Magazine,' 
"every word of which I wrote myself, the editorial of which 
was acknowledged to be the greatest of the series! I had the 
misfortune to be beaten for Junior Orator by Sam Stryker, but 



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Sam feels sorry for it, and I forgive him. I got a Speech at 
Commencement, and took for my subject, ' Adversity De- 
velopes Strength,' — a good subject and a fine speech ! 

The Theological Seminary at Princeton gobbled me up in 
the Fall of our graduation ; I took the full course there, and at 
its close stepped forth into the world one of about fifty great 
and good men. In the Fall of 1866 I was called to the New- 
school Presbyterian Church of Westfield, New York, where I 
remained practising my gifts upon the people, for over three 
years. I was then called to Leetsdale, (Sewickly, Pa.), four- 
teen miles from Pittsburg, where I remained nearly seventeen 
years. 

While at Westfield I was married to Miss Catherine Spencer 
of Erie, Pa. The date of our marriage was May 12, 1868. My 
beloved wife was taken from me after a year's illness, at Ashe- 
ville, N. C, January 25, 1897. 

My son, J. Spencer Van Cleve, was born at Westfield, and 
my twin daughters, Henrietta, (now Mrs. O. G. Hitchcock), 
and Frances L., were born at Leetsdale. My son was married 
October 19, 1894, to Miss Grace Reynolds of Erie, and is the 
father of three children, John Reynolds, Catherine, and Rob- 
ert ; the two boys are living. My daughter, Mrs. Hitchcock, 
— married December 19, 1901, — is the mother of a daughter, 
Frances Van Cleve, now about seven months old : — and so it 
comes to pass that I am a grandfather several times over. 
My son is president of the ' Erie Foundry ' company here, and 
my daughter's husband is Secretary of the ' Hays Manufac- 
turing Co.,' of this city. 

I have lived in Erie most of the time for seventeen years, 
and while here have acted as Pastor of the Chestnut Street 
Presbyterian Church, an enterprise which I have been per- 
mitted to revive and re-establish, I believe, on a good and pros- 
perous basis, with a hopeful outlook for the future. My ' semi- 
lunar fardels,' D.D., were attached to my distinguished pa- 
tronymic by Grove City College several years ago. I have 
had my share of travel ; have been in all the States of the 
Union but three ; have crossed the Continent three times, 
lived a year in Colorado, and several months in California, at 
Pasadena ; took a trip to Alaska ; made two trips across the 
Atlantic, and last year visited, with my daughter, Palestine 



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and Egypt. With all this I am still a young man, ' eye un- 
dimmed, natural force unabated.' 

Permit me, in closing this sketch, to express my profound 
and sincere admiration for our Class ! There certainly has 
never been a better class in the history of Old Princeton. I 
love the boys, all of them, and bespeak for myself a little place 
in their hearts. May those of us who are still here as long as 
possible cherish the memory of our Classmates who have gone 
before, serving God and our generation faithfully and well. 
And then may we meet again in the closer and inseparable fel- 
lowship of the better world ! Cordially and faithfully Yours." 

Delightfully unchanged, the years have not much touched, — 
nor fattened, — our Bob. We are sorry for his affliction ; but 
we joy with him in the daughters dear, and in the able up- 
holding of his son : one of the strong young men of Western 
Pennsylvania enterprise, — and in the blessed babes. 

A. B. and A.M. 

THEODORE STRONG VAN DYKE has attained distinc- 
tion in two enviable fields, as an engineer of extensive irri- 
gating works, and as a writer and authority on field sports 
and out of door subjects. It is affirmed that his early years 
were devoted to pistol and shot-gun shooting ; that he was the 
crack pistol-shot of Princeton and traditions of him still linger 
there. (See under Cross). He had been famous all his life as 
a sportsman and in the West is known as " The Still Hunter," 
after his book of that title. Yet greater than his fame in this 
dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, 
and over every living thing that moveth upon the earth, are 
his gifts to the sons of men in realizing the blessing of the sub- 
duing of the earth and turning its deserts into gardens like 
Eden. 

He was born at New Brunswick, N. J., the son of Judge 
John and Mary D. Van Dyke, the Catalogue alleging that he 
hailed from " Somerset." He is a brother to Professor John 
C. Van Dyke of Rutgers College and a third cousin to Profes- 
sor Henry Van Dyke, of Princeton. He is from an old Dutch 
Jersey family, and his ancestors were in the Revolution. His 
father was not a " romantic freebooter " or " pirate," but a dis- 
tinguished lawyer, bank president, Congressman, etc., and also 



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for years a Judge of the Supreme Courts of New Jersey and 
Minnesota. His mother was a daughter of Prof. Theodore 
Strong of Rutgers College, from whom he received his name, 
a celebrated mathematician and astronomer. 

He prepared at Rutgers Grammar School and Rutgers Col- 
lege, and entered our Class, Freshman half-advanced, in Feb- 
ruary, i860. He is put down as rooming at 36 North, with 
James B. Converse, by the Catalogues, but their testimony oft 
agrees not together. 

He studied law with James Wilson, Esq., of Trenton, was 
admitted to the Bar in June 1866, and was reported along at 
that time as " in partnership with his father." In 1867 he 
went West for his health, and practised in Minnesota, being 
in the State Legislature there for the term of 1872. The year 
1876 brought a decided change in his pursuits owing to a con- 
tinuance of ill health ; he went to Southern California, aban- 
doning law for writing and hydraulic engineering, irrigation. 
He has been, and is a well-known writer on field sports 
for all the magazines and for newspapers, travelling in Mexico 
as special correspondent for the New York Tribune and other 
papers. He has travelled and hunted over every part of that 
ancient land, and over all our States and Territories. He 
engineered and built the San Diego Flume, a very important 
work, and has made the plans and surveys of many other irri- 
gating enterprises in Southern California. He is at present 
interested in a great undertaking for reclaiming the vast area 
of the Mohave Desert from works beginning near Daggett, on 
the Mohave river in San Bernardino county, Cal. He is al- 
leged to have made and lost several fortunes, but to be chiefly 
interested in writing, in nature, in shooting and in art, and to 
care little for what is called " success." 

Like other men of apparent indolence but real industry, Mr. 
Van Dyke has been for years a severe student, though it is 
said he always declared he " went through College with a 
fiddle and a gun." He is to-day a man of fine education in 
almost every field. He speaks half a dozen languages, and 
after so many years since he left College and classical pursuits, 
he can still read Latin and Greek as readily as French, Italian, 
German or Spanish. His last books have been published in 
the " American's Sportsman Library," edited by Caspar Whit- 



Princeton, Sixty-three 179 

ney; notably, "The Deer Family," which was produced in 
collaboration with the present versatile President of the 
United States, Mr. Roosevelt, " Upland Game Birds," with 
Edwin Sandys, etc. Before that he wrote " The Still Hunter," 
" Southern California," " Rifle, Rod and Gun in California," 
" Millionaires of a Day," " Game Birds at Home," and " The 
Breeder and Sportsman," besides a book on " The Art of Irri- 
gation." 

Mr. Van Dyke married Miss Lois A. Funk of Brooklyn, 
N. Y., and has two children. His address is, Daggett, S. Ber- 
nardino county, California. 

It goes without saying that such a man as our somewhat 
out-of-the-ordinary Classmate is one not much interested in 
personal mention, is personally modest and retiring like some 
of the shy creatures whose habits he knows so well, but is 
highly well thought of by those whose good luck it is to enjoy 
his intimacy. Parties who have printed his writings, such as 
the men on Forest and Stream and Outing speak in unqualified 
terms of the authority and value of all of his work, as well as 
of the excellence and power of its style. The books should 
be better known to his Classmates. A. B. and A. M. 

JAMES BRINCKERHOFF VREDENBURGH is an able 

and highly-valued jurisconsult of the Bar of the State of New 
Jersey, who has been for the last forty years, nearly, located 
upon the Jersey City side of the Hudson river at New York. 
This situation has always been one of very great importance 
from the point of view of business intercourse and legal rela- 
tions, owing to the civil and administrative frontier line be- 
tween two States passing here at the most populous point 
geographically in the country. The manifold interests and 
intimacies necessarily existing, growing in extent at a tre- 
mendous rate, give rise to problems of law practice which re- 
quire the presence of legal men of ability, learning and acute- 
ness. Of late years especially the immense, development of 
associate activity in the industries and transportation of the 
country, — affairs far transcending what the world has ever 
seen before, — has brought prominently into notice the ad- 
vantage which accrues to corporations deriving their char- 
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largely of mere legislative fairness, — whose being and func- 
tions are of course chiefly centred and exercised in the streets 
and offices of the great cities just across the Delaware and the 
Hudson, and whose business is spread over the whole country 
and the whole world. This has given to Camden and Trenton 
and especially to Jersey City and Newark, (the latter only 
twenty minutes away), great prominence as seats of activity 
in the profession of the law. No judicial name in the country 
is more constantly or more conspicuously drawn into notice in 
connection with cases involving large corporate adjudications 
than that of our Classmate, Judge Andrew Kirkpatrick, at 
Newark, where he presides over the United States District 
Court for New Jersey, and almost daily handles cases of the 
extremest importance to the financial world. This is part of our 
Class History, and must find mention in this book. Hendrick- 
son is immersed in similar work at Trenton; Martin V. and 
Christopher Bergen, as well as a cousin and some nephews 
of Dayton, are at Camden ; and Zabriskie and Vredenburgh 
are here at Jersey City. In the occupation of these strategic 
points, most decisive of the issue in the control of moral forces, 
the situation is held by the Class of '63 ! 

Mr. Vredenburgh's firm is now Vredenburgh, Wall & Van 
Winkle, No. 1 Exchange place, within a few steps of the great 
Ferry, and just across from the enormous Pennsylvania Ter- 
minal. He is the legal adviser, in that locality, of the Penn- 
sylvania Railroad Corporation, among other important in- 
terests. Vredenburgh has handled their heavy concerns these 
forty years, usually with success, always to their satisfaction ; 
and he looks hardly a week older to-day, than when we used 
to see him going about the Campus bent on fun or mischief, 
in the old and halcyon days. 

He was born near the old historical Monmouth battle 
ground, at Freehold, N. J., October 1, 1844, an d fitted for Col- 
lege there, in the Preparatory Institute, — where Marcellus 
also prepared (whose life was to be so diametrically different). 
His parents, Peter Vredenburgh and Eleanor Brinckerhoff, 
are of the strong and steadfast Netherlands ancestry and ex- 
traction, which has contributed so much to the quality of the 
men of our Class, as well as to the mental and moral stamina 
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He entered Sophomore and roomed in North, caring more 
for the life of the place than for its scholarly or literary tri- 
umphs, though he was a good student, too, — stood eleventh on 
final standing. On graduating he promptly chose the legal 
profession as the field of his life work. He studied at Harvard 
Law School ; was admitted to the Bar, June, 1866, and de- 
scribed himself as at that time an individual the State of New 
Jersey was satisfied to accredit as a " moral man," and to 
recognize as an Attorney ; but " without books, office or sign, 
case, client or fee." We have changed all that. 

Mr. Vredenburgh married, April 18, 1878, Emily H. Van 
Vorst, daughter of John Van Vorst of Jersey City of the able 
family of that name identified with the locality from the early 
days. He has six children, five boys and one girl. He resides 
at 270 Montgomery street, Jersey City. A. B. and A. M. 

INGERSOLL WASHBURN returns to our knowledge 
safe, sound and alive, after the changes of upwards of forty 
years, and, like several others of our Southern Classmates, 
having passed through the greatest war of modern times with- 
out a wound. He was detailed to the Signal Corps, and since 
the war has continued to reside in his native city of Savan- 
nah. He comes of old Colonial and Revolutionary New Eng- 
land stock, — among whom the nearest to such a " freebooter " 
as is inquired for by the schedule was a Slaver ferreted out 
by a delving daughter, a Colonial Dame. His grandfather 
and great-grandfather on the father's side were among the 
Massachusetts troops at Bunker Hill, one of them an officer, 
if not both, besides others, — one a certain famous Colonel 
Davis, — who were prominent in the military affairs of that 
time. A Washburn and an Ingersoll ancestor were members 
of the Convention that framed the first State Constitution of 
Massachusetts. His father who came to Georgia from near 
Worcester in the first quarter of last century, and was promi- 
nent in the commercial and banking life of Savannah, was a 
brother of Emory Washburn, Governor of Massachusetts and 
afterwards a Professor in the Harvard Law School. His 
mother's name was Ingersoll, from Springfield, Mass., of a 
family which produced many eminent men. 

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Pa., in the school of Arthur Ricord. He entered Sopho- 
more, but returned home the following Spring. He recalls 
the occasion of a " horn spree," for aiding, abetting and sym- 
pathizing with which, in the company of " Cholly " West, 
1862, he was driven to the verge of that thing which a small 
boy defined as " an abomination to the Lord and a very pres- 
ent help in trouble ; " — owing to Dr. McLean's persecutant 
energy. He used diplomacy unto escape from either horn. 
Other representations there are, — perhaps convivial, — in 
which the names of near-by roommates occur: he roomed on 
that entry where was 31 East and the room inscribed " Tem- 
perance Hall," now, alas, extant no more. 

With " Dick " Woodbricige, Washburn started home, by 
way of Louisville, the tracks beyond Baltimore on the direct 
route being torn up. Having learned from Old John the risk 
of blowing horns, he blew none, yet escaped lynching in Penn- 
sylvania only rather narrowly, and finally reached Georgia 
via Nashville and Chattanooga. There he entered Franklin 
College, University of Georgia, at Athens. There were hardly 
twenty men in the place, and after about a year he left for the 
army, joining the Eighteenth Georgia Battalion of Infantry 
(Savannah Volunteer Guards), in which were Woodbridge and 
" Ned." Kollock, '61, and West, '62. He was detached to the 
Signal Corps with West and Neufville, of '62, a branch of the 
service demanding special intelligence, yet offering few oppor- 
tunities for promotion. He was stationed near the city during 
the greater part of the war, till it was evacuated on Sherman's 
arrival. Thence he was sent to Charleston and Sullivan's 
Island, and was posted for a long time at Battery Bee, near 
Ft. Moultrie ; and from there was taken to a hospital at 
Cheraw, S. C, having contracted malarial fever in the rice 
swamps. The army passing through Cheraw, he rejoined his 
command, but in North Carolina the Signal Corps was dis- 
banded and he was making his way to his regiment, which 
was in Virginia, when the news of Lee's surrender reached 
him, and he attached himself to a Savannah command, 
the Chatham Artillery, then under General Joseph E. John- 
ston, surrendered at Greensboro, N. C, whence our high 
private plodded home afoot. Washburn entered the cotton 
business at Savannah, where he has since resided, having 



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escaped some close calls by both hurricane, flood and ^earth- 
quake. 

Mr. Washburn, March 9, 1871, at the family plantation, 
" Richmond," Bryan county, Ga., married Anne Clay, a great- 
granddaughter of Joseph Clay, who was a Member of the 
Revolutionary Council at Savannah, and of the Continental 
Congress from Georgia in 1778-80, and Deputy Paymaster 
General for the United States Southern Department from 1779 
to the close of the war. He was also one of the original 
Trustees of Franklin College. Mrs. Washburn's grandfather 
was Joseph Clay, A. B., Princeton, who was Judge of the 
United States District Court in his day. Her father, Thomas 
Savage Clay, a prominent citizen and rice planter of the above 
county in Georgia, was a graduate of Harvard.. Six children 
have been born of this marriage, four sons and two daughters, 
of whom only three are now living, a son and two daughters. 
Address, 122 Waldburg street, East, Savannah, Ga. 

ROBERT RAIKES WESTCOTT was the son of Joel and 
Mary Leighton Westcott, — names associated with scholar- 
ship, godliness and devotion to good works, — which prepare 
us for the statement that he was " naturally studious and 
religious, was truly converted at seventeen, and at once began 
to prepare himself for the ministry " and to " work his way 
through to a finished education." 

He taught and studied in Bridgeton Academy, having been 
born near by, at Cedarville, in Cumberland county, N. J., 
June 14, 1837. One of the oldest men in our class, he entered 
Sophomore, graduated with us, and was our Class Treasurer. 
He taught freedmen at Nashville and Murfreesboro, Tenn., as 
the war was ending, and supplied a Church at Swedesboro, 
N. J., during his Seminary vacations, and, graduating in the- 
ology at Princeton in 1866, went to Verona, in Dane county, 
Wisconsin, to settle, stopping on his way at Greenfield, in 
southern Ohio, to marry the woman of his choice. 

He was installed pastor at Verona in June, 1866, from there, 
" in a little grove in the midst of a Wisconsin prairie," he 
sent us his greeting that same June, and there and at Blue 
Mounds he preached three years. But the climate proved too 
severe for an already delicate throat, and he found a charge 



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at Clarinda, in southern Iowa, where he labored ten years ; 
when failing lungs and throat compelled a discontinuance. 
We find him bravely trying again, after a couple of years of 
outdoor life, at Newton, Iowa. Fifteen months was all he 
could endure, however, and he saw that his day of full work 
as a minister was ended. 

Having a home of his own at Clarinda, Mr. Westcott now 
purchased an Abstract and Loan real estate business there, 
and, though always handicapped by the pulmonary trouble, 
he was very successful and was greatly esteemed as a Chris- 
tian gentleman and scholar and sound business man, living 
till January u, 1897. " One of the best men we ever knew," 
as a business associate testified. 

He left his wife, who was Nancy Emily Beatty (who resides 
at Clarinda), and three children living, two having died in 
infancy. His son, Edward B. Westcott, continued his busi- 
ness, is married and has a daughter six years old. The younger 
daughter, Florence, died after her father, at the age of twenty, 
when half-way through Western College, Oxford, Ohio. The 
elder, Grace, is the wife of Rev. Charles Black, of the Presby- 
terian Church, Clinton, 111., who has a son living. 

The foregoing excellent record confirms the estimate formed 
by Westcott's Classmates of him as an earnest, solid, reliable 
man, who would be sure to do an enduring work as a Chris- 
tian and a minister. A. B. and A. M 

BENJAMIN SEABROOK WHALEY bears the name of 
one of the eminent Seabrook family who are well represented 
on the Princeton Rolls, as are also the Mikells, " related to 
me in different degrees," and likewise the Whaleys, who 
appear on the Catalogue, beginning with Hercules of 1785 
and on to Ephraim Mikell and William Edings, the last, of 
1861, being still living: — "all my relations, foreparents, 
uncles and cousins," and continuing, " my ancestry date from 
away back; had two foreparents in the Revolutionary war, 
one a Captain and the other a Lieutenant." 

Whaley was born, July 8, 1842, on Edisto Island, South 
Carolina, one of the famous coast islands which produce the 
valuable long staple cotton, but which are liable to the awful 
devastations of the occasional cyclones. 



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Growing up in the country, he attended the country schools, 
preparing there for College as best they could do it, which 
he entered with us in our first year. There is a delightful 
letter from him, breathing the spirit of affection for the dear 
old days and names, and the Class will be glad to have his 
own words. We remember him as always the modest, agree- 
able gentleman, respected and liked by all. 

" You can hardly conceive the surprise it gave to hear from 
one of my Classmates of forty years ago, — when we were boys 
treading the Campus of old Princeton together, with Homer 
for Cameron, Geometry for Burroughs. I have tried to answer 
your questions ; anything more you may wish to know I will 
give you with pleasure, and it will give me pleasure to hear 
from you : — I am tempted to call you Old Fellow, though I 
see ' Rev.' " (save the mark !) " to your name : — a high and 
noble calling. I have been a member of the Episcopal Church 
for the last thirty-five years. It gave great pleasure to hear 
from your Circular what had become of the different members 
of the Class. I left Princeton at the beginning of the Civil 
War; on my coming home I entered the South Carolina Col- 
lege, remaining there about seven months." As with others 
who tried to continue their education at Southern institutions, 
the spirit of the hour forbade such relative inaction ; — " staid 
there a short while, when I left, entered the C. S. Army and 
served as a private in the cavalry branch of the service to the 
end of the war; was in some pretty close places, but came out 
all right ; — I am thankful to the Giver of all good, without 
a scratch, though I was in some hot places. 

The war left us, that is, my father's family, high and dry 
financially, and during what are called reconstruction days we 
had a pretty hard time of it. I have followed farming as my 
occupation, and it has been an up-hill business, having had 
disasters from hurricanes, floods and setbacks of different 
kinds. I married in 1867; my wife (who is now an invalid) 
and five grown children constitute my family, and I have two 
grandchildren. I am now sixty-one years old, in very good 
health ; have never held any elective office except such as 
School Trustee, Tax Assessor and Notary Public, which I 
am at present. 

I have never attended a Reunion of our Class ; I have often 

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wished to visit old Princeton, but from circumstances could 
never go. It is hard to look back and think that forty years 
have passed over our heads since the Class of '63 graduated. 
And yet, though we have passed through some stirring times, 
— war, earthquake and cyclone, with me, — we can say Thanks 
to the Lord, you and I are still among the living! Hoping 
to hear from you again, I must close. Very truly, your friend 
and Classmate, B. Seabrook Whaley, Bohicket P. O., Charles- 
ton county, S. C." 

We ought to write to these delightful fellows. 

HENRY M. WILLIAMS was with the Class but a short 
time, entering in the course of the Junior year and quitting 
Princeton for the war at its close. He is a resident of Fort 
Wayne, Indiana, a highly respected citizen, and was for some 
time engaged in a large way there as a lumber merchant, hav- 
ing mills in Northern Michigan, a member of the firm of 
Beaver, Miller & Company, which was a house of high 
standing. 

The records of the Indiana Commandery of the Loyal 
Legion show that Henry M. Williams entered the Eleventh 
Indiana Battery as Second Lieutenant, February 17, 1862; 
became First Lieutenant, August 10, 1863 ; and was mustered 
out November, 1863, wounded. He suffered a maiming of the 
hand. For this the law allowed a pension together with 
arrearages, amounting to a considerable sum, which Mr. Will- 
iams presented to a charitable institution in Fort Wayne. 

JOHN MAGIE WILLIAMS was from Elizabeth, N. J., 
where he prepared for College under Mr. Pingry, the loved 
and honored teacher of a number of our Classmates at Pearl 
Cottage Seminary, and entered Sophomore. He was one of 
the band who sacrificed their College prospects for the sake 
of serving the country, and enlisted in the army at the begin- 
ning of the Senior year. He entered the " Anderson Cavalry," 
officially the Fifteenth Pennsylvania Cavalry, Company D, 
October 3, 1862, in company with Rowland Cox and Mont- 
gomery Hamilton. The " Record " states : " He was in a 
skirmish near Carlisle, Penn., the following December, and 
then proceeded to Tennessee, where he was for a time en- 



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gaged in guerilla warfare. His courage in battle and his cool- 
ness in danger soon impressed his superior officers, even 
attracting the attention of the generous-hearted Rosecrans 
and he was in consequence appointed a Lieutenant and Adju- 
tant of the Seventeenth Kentucky Volunteers." However, 
the end of his service was near when this grateful recognition 
came. He was prostrated by typhoid fever, from which he died, 
at McMinnville, Tenn., July 9, 1863. He was eagerly hopeful 
of recovery, and, although never able to assume the duties of 
his new position, took the oath of qualification while on his 
bed, his Colonel urging it. 

Mr. Hamilton, referring to the trio who were messmates in 
that regiment, says : " Williams's life was much shorter. He 
did not have the home influence, — with those in authority, I 
mean, — that Cox and I happened to have. But his personal 
qualities before long made up for it, — a Kentucky Colonel, 
finding that he had no one in his regiment fit to be Adjutant, 
asked our Colonel for some one he could name for such a 
post; and Williams was recommended and got the position." 

The Class Historian well recalls the tall, elegant figure and 
peculiarly refined face and manner of this noble comrade of 
College days ; and how, in referring to English literature and 
to Shakespeare, he once remarked : " I always feel that I must 
try to read a play a week." He was a splendid sacrifice to 
Patriotism. His remains were brought from Tennessee and 
buried from the Second Church, Elizabeth, of which he was a 
member ; when the aged Dr. Magie, for whom he was named, 
and the two well-known and loved teachers, Mr. Pierson and 
Mr. Pingry, took part. An extended eulogy from one of these 
friends at Elizabeth appears in the " Record " of 1866-7. There 
is nothing in the General Catalogue of the College to indicate 
that Williams was given his degree of A. B. on the graduation 
of the Class, if such was promised. His death did not take 
place till after our Commencement. 

GEORGE BOARDMAN YOUNG, M. D., is now a clergy- 
man of the Baptist Church. He is the son of Rev. George 
Young, A. M. (whose father, English by birth, died in the 
American Navy in 1812, and whose mother was the child of 
a Welsh Baptist preacher) and Elizabeth Hendrickson Young, 



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daughter of Charles Ellis, Esq., of Burlington, N. J. His 
father was a graduate of Brown University and a Princeton 
Seminary student, and was pastor of the Baptist Church at 
Princeton, situated in Canal street, in our time. 

He was born at Lambertville, September 4, 1843, his father 
being then pastor there, and he was prepared for College 
" in the little room under the M. E. Church in Princeton, by 
that most excellent teacher, the late John Schenck," in a 
Class with J. B. and J. H. Done, Edward S. Moffat and P. B. 
Pumyea, who all together entered the Freshman Class in the 
Fall of 1859. Young took four full years in College, gradu- 
ated in the Medical Department of the University of Pennsyl- 
vania in the Spring of 1867, and practiced medicine in Rox- 
borough, the twenty-first ward of Philadelphia, until the Fall 
of 1876. Dr. Young then turned his thoughts to the ministry, 
and received an invitation to preach in a Church at West- 
ville, Hunterdon county N. J. He was ordained to the Chris- 
tian ministry at Clinton, N. J., in the Autumn of 1877, an d 
was afterwards pastor in Pottsville, Pa., completing his studies 
a few years later, and was graduated at Crozer Theological 
Seminary at Chester, Pa., in June, 1881, delivering an oration 
at the Commencement exercises. 

Being now equipped for the work, Dr. Young went first as 
a missionary of the " Baptist Home Mission Society " to the 
State of Nebraska, where he labored with very good results 
for three years. He then returned to New Jersey, in the Fall 
of 1884, and has served since that time, as pastor, the Churches 
at Baptistown, Marlton, Hamilton Square, in New Jersey, 
and also the Baptist Church at Nanticoke, in Pennsylvania. 
Between three and four hundred souls have united with the 
Churches under his ministrations, and he has also been very 
successful at times in his efforts as an evangelist. 

He married, in April, 1867, Miss Emily A. Bicknell, of West 
Philadelphia, youngest daughter of the late Rufus Bicknell, 
M. D., and Emily L. Bicknell, his wife, who was a Stockton, 
sister of the late Thomas H. Stockton, D. D., an eminent 
clergyman, and half-sister to Mr. Frank R. Stockton, lately 
deceased, the inimitable novelist and storiographer. 

They have had four children, — 1. Rufus Bicknell, born May 
17, 1868, who died while a youth, August 12, 1886, being a 



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Freshman at Bicknell University, at Lewisburg, Pa., and about 
to enter the Sophomore year Class of '89 at Princeton, a very 
bright scholar. 2. Elizabeth, born in 1872, and died that year. 

3. Jennie R., born November, 1873, living at home unmarried. 

4. Henry George Weston, born March 21, 1880, Princeton '03, 
and now embarking in business in Boston, who received at 
Commencement the Boudinot Fellowship in History. 

Dr. Young, in 1870, while in medical practice, was invited 
to take a " Quiz " in Obstetrics at the Jefferson Medical Col- 
lege of Philadelphia. In 1884, in his early ministry, he was 
elected to the Chair of Greek in the College at Gibbon, 
Nebraska, now located at Grand Island in that State. He 
now serves the Baptist Church at Ocean City, N. J., where 
he has recently built himself " a nice twelve-room cottage, 
near the ocean," where any Classmate seeking salt air will 
find him and meet a welcome. " Health good, — appetite 
fine," — as becomes one skilled both as a doctor to the outer 
man and a healer of the inner. A. B. and A. M. 

AUGUSTUS ZABRISKIE, an Attorney and Counsellor of 
the New Jersey Bar, has from the beginning of his career 
pursued a valuable practice in the courts of that State, in 
which he is much respected ; — having his residence, however, 
in the attractive vicinity of Roslyn, Long Island, just out- 
side the limits of Greater New York. For the purposes of 
business as a New Jersey practitioner, he early established 
himself in Exchange Place, Jersey City, — 'the great unfortified 
tete-du-pont and thronging entrance way of the mighty 
metropolis and emporium with its millions of people and of 
wealth just across the Hudson ; in a civil sense separate, but 
in every essential respect, geographical, commercial and 
otherwise, part, the one of the other. 

The wide stream is bridged by the ferries with their num- 
berless powerful boats and floats, incessantly going and com- 
ing, crowded with eager, impatient multitudes, dawn and 
dark, midnight and noon. Exchange Place is the short con- 
tinuation across the strip of riparian made-land, added as an 
afterthought to the end of the thoroughfare in which ter- 
minate all the highways of the continent. As all roads lead 
to London, so all lines of travel, traffic and transportation 



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converge at Jersey City, and by this channel a stream of count- 
less millions constantly pours and roars and passes through. 
Number fifteen is at the very point and centre of this vast 
confluence of incoming, outgoing multitudes ; and across, 
behind, on every hand, rise and spread the immense struc- 
tures that form the terminals of the lines of steel, like the 
caravanseries of old, whose arches shelter the beasts of iron 
with their throbbing breasts and nostrils breathing fire. A 
stone's throw away is the ferry entrance and brink of the 
human Niagara. Around the " loop," just at hand, like swarm- 
ing butterflies in summer, or like bees hurrying to and from 
the hive, are speeding electric cars, the darting shuttles as of 
a great loom, to weave the fabric of complex municipal life 
and interest. You step aboard one of these, and in a little 
you are at the edifices of justice seated on the rocky heights 
of Bergen, where Hudson City used to stand, now merged in 
this quarter-million borough. From here you look over the 
meadowed plain to where lie in sight Newark and Elizabeth 
and many another thickly-peopled town, the smoke of their 
industries going up forever ; and on along the hastening lines 
of the railways, where lie, beneath the horizon, the cities, — 
other seats of justice and of law, Trenton, Philadelphia, Wash- 
ington, — and the Continent beyond. This is the theatre. 

Si Istoria? Circumspice. The gate of the city was from the 
earliest times the place of concourse and human collision, as 
well as the seat of honor and influence. Its open space was 
the scene of traffic, of commercial appointment and of the 
appeal to justice. Our Classmate gives us a couple of sen- 
tences to describe the work of his forty years : " Admitted to 
New Jersey Bar, June, 1866; have practiced there ever since." 
Imagine him in this tremendous place, and you can realize 
his life and services. We may tell the career of humanity in 
two words, that it was born and that it died; but who can 
relate what lies between? When on his daily errand from his 
pleasant Roslyn home, never was it, we may be sure, in the 
case of our Classmate, to "drive away the ass. of the father- 
less, or to take the widow's ox for a pledge." When, like Job 
of old, he " went out to the gate through the city, and pre- 
pared his seat in the street," it was to " put on righteousness 
to clothe him, and judgment for his robe and diadem ; to be 



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a father to the poor and to search out the cause that he knew 
not; to deliver the poor that cried, and him that had none to 
help him." Forty years in this spot means more than any 
Class Historian's pen can write. 

Mr. Zabriskie was born at Hackensack, N. J., March 5, 
1843. His College preparation was taken at Andover, in com- 
pany with some of his future Classmates. He was with us 
through our whole course, one of our liveliest blades, — was 
November editor of the Nassau " Lit," — ever greeted with a 
smile and giving one. He was at the Harvard Law School 
from 1864 till 1866, several of his Classmates being with him, 
and there took his LL. B. In 1870 he married Miss Josephine 
B. Booraem, of Jersey City, and he has three children and 
five grandchildren. 

His father was the Hon. Abraham Oothout Zabriskie, 
LL. D., Chancellor of New Jersey and a member of the 
Senate of the State, and a Trustee of our University, — of the 
Class of '25. His mother was Sarah A. Pell. His brother, 
Abram Zabriskie, Esq., graduated in 1859, just as we entered; 
and two of the later generation, Francis Nicoll and Robert 
Lansing, are of the Class of '95. He is a first cousin of 
N. Lansing Zabriskie, Esq., of Aurora, the seat of Wells 
College, N. Y., who has been a lifelong benefactor of the cause 
of woman's education, — as the Class Historian has reason to 
know. If it is true, as he asserts, that he " is not descended 
from a Polish king," he comes of a race of American noble- 
men, and patriotism and integrity are in the blood. 

A. B. and A. M. 

PETER ZAHNER, originally of Mifflin, Ohio, was a civil 
engineer and achieved marked success in railway work of 
magnitude in the Great West. He is reported by C. W. 
McAlpin, Secretary of the Alumni at Princeton, to have died 
in April, 1891, at Pendleton, Oregon, and to have left a son, 
Mr. J. H. Zahner, at that place. No communication has been 
established with this gentleman, and it was feared that this 
notice would be confined to what was known and reported in 
1866, till accident recently brought something more definite. 

A tall, spare man, Zahner was of quiet and unpretending 
demeanor, but used to bring down the house in uproarious 



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stamping and cheering with his recitations in mathematics, 
and was one in whom Duffield was always well pleased. 
Zahner looked at us as we made all this noise with a smile 
that was undemonstrative and modest, but not timid. He 
roomed with Ben. Thompson, at 29 West, for one year, and 
afterwards at No. 20. He entered Junior, graduated, and 
took his two degrees in course, but where he studied his pro- 
fession is not known. In 1866 he was reported to be then 
engaged in surveying for the Union Pacific Railroad, his 
address being at Omaha, or Hayesville (which is near Mifflin), 
Ohio; and he had already been offered a Professorship in 
a Western College. 

Some clues developed later. Our Classmate Miller wrote 
that he had heard of Zahner as having " attained some dis- 
tinction as an engineer in the difficult operations of the work 
of projecting the Denver & Rio Grande road." Last of all, 
Dr. Lowrie, at Omaha, through an engineer of the Union 
Pacific, obtained the name of Mr. W. H. Kennedy, who is at 
the head of the Engineering Department of the Oregon Rail- 
road and Navigation Company at Portland, from whom the 
following very satisfactory letter has been received: 

" I beg to acknowledge the receipt of yours asking for 
information relative to the late Peter Zahner, with whom my 
acquaintance began during the year 1875 ; at which time he 
was employed by President Dorsey S. Baker, since deceased, 
as Chief Engineer of the Walla Walla & Columbia River Rail- 
road, a line over thirty-one miles in length, with a branch some 
fifteen to twenty miles long to blue Mountain, Washington. 

In 1879, when the late President Villard purchased that 
railroad, he extended it westward into Portland, Oregon, and 
eastwardly to Colfax, in Washington, with various branches, 
and on several of these extensions Mr. Zahner was employed 
on location and construction as Principal Assistant Engineer 
in Charge. 

In 1888 Mr. Zahner, as Chief Engineer of the Washington 
& Idaho Railroad Company, located a line from Tekoa, in 
Washington, to the town of Mullen, in Idaho, a distance of 
eighty-seven miles, and also located and had charge of con- 
struction of a line from Farmington, Washington, to the city 
of Spokane, a distance of about sixty miles. 



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I have no means of determining the date of Mr. Zahner's 
death, which occurred in the town of Pendleton, Oregon, but 
think it was not long after the completion of his work with 
the Washington & Idaho Company. 

Mr. Zahner's attainments commanded the respect of all 
who had intercourse with him, and I believe I am safe in 
saying he was one of the most conscientious men with whom 
it was ever my pleasure to be associated, and I regretted his 
loss exceedingly. Hoping this all too brief sketch of a por- 
tion of the life work of Mr. Zahner may be of use to you, 
I remain/' etc. 

" Portland, Oregon, March 14, 1904." 

Certainly few of our number have accomplished more 
effective labor for the advancement of civilization and the 
benefit of mankind than this unostentatious but able Class- 
mate; and we must all feel proud and gratified that this roll 
of names can be concluded with one which does us all such 
honor. A. B. and A. M. 



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AFTERWORD 

T" HE REDACTOR, or Person in Charge of these pages, 
has striven to avoid the tendency to Appendicitis, so 
deplorably apt to supervene at this stage, by dispersing gen- 
erally through the System the Matter which usually causes 
the congestion. A Consultation of the Medical Members of 
the Class, however, has decided that, owing to this precaution, 
entire removal of the Appendix is an extreme not needful; 
and our " Autocrat," Holmes, has provided the means of safely 
retaining that affix. 

Johns Hopkins has not as yet secured Doctor Holmes for a 
Course, upon the Turnbull Foundation, on The Poetry of Sixty- 
Three; but the following will give a fair idea what such a 
course would be. Had the Doctor been able to be at the Ban- 
quet, we should not have seen it here, and the Members then 
absent would have lost a pleasure. It was only designed 
for a passing occasion; yet as we have in this Book no pic- 
tures, whether of the place, the Faculty, or the Men of the 
Class, these snap-shots, it may be, will serve to call back for- 
gotten scenes and faces, and help revive the past. 

1863-1903 

Forty years ! and can it be, 

That time doth fly so very fast! 
Are these the " boys " I used to see ? 

So gray, and growing old so fast ! 

Of " Sixty-Three " one-half are gone, 

The rest are scattered far and wide. 
And of our laurels by war we're shorn, 

Who years agone sat side by side. 

More than eighty, once we numbered, 

In those glad, golden days so dear, — 
Days when the red war-dogs yet slumbered, 

And our hearts had learned to know no fear. 

Then it was " Jim " and " Sam " and " Will," — 

The " Clergy," " Doctor " and " Judge," to-day. 
Our hearts are those of the glad boys still, 

Though we have grown older, yes, and gray. 



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" Johnnie " McLane, the dear old saint, 

Was more than father to us all; 
And " Dad " and " Gige," and " Duff," their mate, 

Have answered to Heaven's last Roll Call. 

Guyot, Mcllvaine, Schenck and the " Tutes," 

Are dead, — or gone from the Classic Halls. 
Their places are filled by green recruits, 

As the ivy, clinging, hides the old walls. 

Burroughs and Gregory, McAtee and Sutphen, — 
These, with decent Nimmo, our Tutors were : — but Mudge 

Belonged to Sixty-Two. His " Fresh " should " cut " then, 
With Butler (Giglamps), Orris, Coale and — Fudge! 

Our landmarks, too, are gone, all but one, — 

Even " Jim," the fragrant, has " Crossed the Bar." 

Of the " old hands," Dennis is left alone ; — 
Could ever we then have seen so far? 

Now, a whole city fills all the College park, 

Where, in our day, eight edifices stood ; 
Piles, architectural and modern, mark 

The new, trim Campus, — the old was a wood. 

Doomed was our Chapel, dismal yet dear, 

No stone left, — a Libr'ry marks the spot, — 
East College sacrificed, quite, I fear ! 
Is this a real improvement, or is it not? 

And the Senior Room, scene of happy hours, 

With it has vanished forever from our sight ; 
The " Scientif " and Libr'ry " Green " rear their towers — 

All this, — to us, — seems hardly what is right. 

Then the old Refectory, too, is now no more ; 

And " South Campus " has become a thing of the past ; 
The " Halls," now all marble, are not as of yore : — 

Thus all cherished things are touched and spoiled at last. 

We cannot but express our much regret 
That the College Authorities have " went " so fast, 

Changing things from the way they were set, — 
And our opinion of it was not asked. 

We are greatly opposed to the craze for change, 

In deference to fashion's fluctuations. 
The pile architectural, the athlete strange : — 

The riches of a College are its old associations. 



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No more the fragile pitcher, — and heavy, — can we fill 
From the pump, where it stood, back of Old North ; 
The dear old, aqueous log, mine eye doth see it still ! 
" Remove it," the edict so impious went forth. 

By the smelling kerosene " Student lamp " of our days, 
" Polled " we the evening's hours long and still ; 
Now dang'rous electricity with dazzling rays 
Flashes and sparkles from dome to sill. 

The railway then was full two miles away; 

Now the Station is at the Archway door. 
The trolley rushes by, and clangs night and day, — 

The " Auto " has come, — the STAGE lumbers no more. 

Baseball, in our day, had but just begun: — 

Football, — we had half the College on a side, — 
And anyone then could make a good run. 
"Rules?" Well, we just used to let them slide. 

In the glad, golden days of that long ago 
We were happy, — so happy, — and full of life, 

Not dreaming the years would ever show 
Time's cares and sorrow, and life's fell strife. 

But the hour is coming, and soon must ring: — 
Years full forty have their length outdrawn ; — 

Greater still the changes that time must bring, 
In the fullness of that other and coming dawn. 

May we meet once yet, Brothers, e'er we all go ; 

Three score and ten some soon must see; — 
And again the old Princeton spirit show. 

Whether 'tis you, or whether 'tis me. 

And then, when it knells, " Time shall be no more," 
Let us trust that we all together may meet, 

An unbroken band, on another shore, 
And answer, Adsum, at the Mercy Seat. 



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Summaries of Occupations and Professions 

Authors, Editors, Writers, Etc. 

Bovell, Coleman, Rowland Cox, J. S. Dennis, Haines, Hueston, 
Holmes, McCauley, McGuire, Mcllvaine, Hamilton, Hayt, 
McAtee, Nichols, O'Hanlon, Sheldon, Swinnerton, Turnbull, 
Van Dyke, and doubtless many others. The greater part of the 
Class have no doubt written more or less. 

Commercial and Business Life. 

Baird, Dey, Gammon, Horner, Inman, Jacobus, Locke, 
MacCoy, Moffat, Murray, Nichols, Patterson, Phipps, Ricks, 
E. Roach, Sexton, Sheldon, Henley Smith, Stanfield, Strickler, 
McLeod Thomson, Washburn, Westcott, H. M. Williams. 

Engineering. 
Jones, MacCoy, M. Thomson, Van Dyke, Zahner. 
Legal Profession. 

M. V. and C. A. Bergen, Canfield, Harry and Rowland Cox, 
Cross, Dayton, Haines, Hendrickson, Hueston, Huey, Jack- 
son, Kunkel, Kirkpatrick, McAtee, Miller, Nichols, Parkhurst, 
Patton, W. Elmer Potter, Frank and Howard Reeder, Smalley, 
Temple, Toadvine, Vredenburg and Zabriskie. 

The following studied the Profession, but practiced to a 
limited degree, and in some of the cases not at all : 

Butler, Gammon, Hamilton, McGuire, Murray, Stanfield, 
Turnbull and Van Dyke. 

Medicine. 

Backus, Colman, J. B. Done, Holmes, Hutchins, Beach 
Jones, Mordecai, Chas. H. Potter, Pumyea, Strickler, Stryker 
and Young. 

Ministry of the Gospel. 

In the Pastorate : Chetwood, Foster, Freeman, Hall, Hayt, 
Littell, Lowrie, MacCoy, Marcellus, O'Hanlon, Sayre, Smythe, 
Swinnerton, Van Cleve, Westcott, Young. 

In the Missionary work : Baldwin, J. S. Dennis, McCauley, 
Mcllvaine, Marcellus and Sayre. 



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The following contemplated the Ministry, but died, or were 
diverted by other causes: Clark, Dewing, Holden, Lupton, 
Southard, Sutphen, B. Thompson. 

Official Station. 

Judges: M. V. Bergen, Hendrickson, Kirkpatrick, McAtee, 
Howard Reeder. 

Legislative : C. A, Bergen, Canfield, Hendrickson, Strickler, 

Van Dyke. 

Diplomatic : Pruyn. 

State and Municipal : Coleman, Rowland Cox, Huey, Miller, 
McGuire, Patton, W. E. Potter, Frank Reeder, Howard Reeder, 
Ricks, Henley Smith, Stanfield, Strickler, Stryker, Whaley, and 
doubtless others. 

Planters. 

E. E. Dennis, Colman, King, Locke, Ricks, Eugene and 
J. Wilkins Roach, Whaley. 

Professorial and Other Educational Services. 

Baird, Baldwin, J. S. Dennis, Hayt, Holmes, Lowrie, Jackson, 
Marcellus, McCauley, Moffat, Nichols, Patton, Ricks, Sheldon, 
Swinnerton, Turnbull, Young, Zahner. 

War. 

Breckinridge, and see Classmates in the Civil War above, under 
the sketch of Sheldon. 

Note. — The above are necessarily incomplete, but may have a certain 
interest, even so. 



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